Re: [orca-list] Folder list in thunderbird is not updated

[Joanmarie Diggs <joanmarie diggs gmail com>]

Hi Michael.

Quick response without having had the opportunity to look into it.

Orca doesn't cache information between events; just for the current
event. In other words, if we get say a focus: event, we'll get the
details for speech, and cache those details for braille. But the very
next event that comes in, regardless of its type, will cause us to dump
that cache. So, for all intents and purposes, Orca doesn't cache
information. Therefore, if Orca is reporting outdated information, my
guess would be that Thunderbird is providing us with outdated
information.

Creating a simple pyatspi listener in python would be a way to test what
Orca has access to.

Hope this helps.
--joanie

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 11:39 +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using thunderbird 3.3a3 and I have noticed that the tree view 
> showing folders can become outdated with orca. Here are some examples:
> 1. The number of new messages next to a folder is not updated, orca was 
> still reporting one new message in my inbox when I had removed all 
> messages (IE. the inbox entry read "inbox (1)").
> 2. I have multiple email accounts on my computer, should I go to the 
> first one and collapse it and then expand it again, the first folder is 
> still reported as the second email account name.
>
> Does anyone have a clue what might be causing the bug? I am using orca 
> 3.0.1, at-spi2 (dbus) and as I said thunderbird 3.3a3.
>
> Michael Whapples
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