Re: [orca-list] orca and xboard

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

The menus are reading nicely with the last build or two I tried thank you.

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  B. Henry wrote:
Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 03:58:39PM -0500

> While the oldschool chess notation that was stilil very much in use when I was young spoke the piece first, 
> e.g., knite to king's bishop 3, with the 
> more modern notation used by xboard I prefer things as they currently are spoken. This is mostlly based on 
> how it sounds rather than any logic, but 
> hearing one letter and one number is pretty fast, so any logical advantage gained by either order is 
> minimal.
> I for one want to hear both bits of information anyway, so I will go with what sounds best to my ear/purely 
> asthetic...
> It would probably not be so hard to make changing this order an option, so if it is imppportant for someone 
> to have a different order than what we have 
> now I vote for adding this option to the accessibility menu.
> Thanks.
>
>
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>   Nalin.x.Linux wrote:
> Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 12:37:15AM +0530
>
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:28 PM, chrys87 <chrys87 web de> wrote:
> > > Hi vilmar, hi list,
> > >
> > > i did a look a this great work.
> > > its great that the game is accessible for visual impaired :). great job!
> > > thanks for doing that.
> >
> > Thanks chrys87 for trying xboard!!
> >
> > > i found a few strange things:
> > > - I start a new party, (play vs computer, i play white on the bottom side of
> > > the field): i select the right knight. If i press the arrow up key now (to
> > > select a new field), the focus is somewhere it say 'lower as' button
> > > (german: "kleiner als" Druckknopf. after that i have to press arrow down do
> > > go back to the gamefield. now i could press again arrow up to focus the next
> > > field. ( i would like to set the new field without focusing the "<" button.
> > > (is that possible? because that makes playing the game hard)
> >
> > The solution patch is attached with this mail. Apply the patch and
> > recompile xboard.
> > Please report feedback as soon as possible.
> >
> > > - is it possible to change the order of that whas announced? it would be
> > > cool if first the piece on a field is spoken and after that the coordinates
> > > are spoken. ( because its more usefull, if i m on
> > > B1 and Press arrow left i know where i m :), the piece is more interesting
> > > to me )
> >
> > Ahh dear list please let me know your opinion about this!!
> >
> > > - a neat feature is also to announce if i unselect a piece :).
> >
> > Yes  sure this also added in the attached patch. Thanks for your
> > valuable feedback.
>
> > diff --git a/backend.c b/backend.c
> > index c707c76..d2341b0 100644
> > --- a/backend.c
> > +++ b/backend.c
> > @@ -7482,6 +7482,9 @@ KeyNavigation(int key)
> >                     if (fromX == x && fromY == y){
> >                             lock = 0;
> >                             MarkTargetSquares(1);
> > +                           currentpiece = boards[currentMove][y][x];
> > +                           sprintf(info,"%s-%d %s 
> > Unselected!",SquareToChar(x),y+1,PieceToName(currentpiece,1));
> > +                           set_accessible_description(info,TRUE);
> >                             printf("\nSame Square");
> >                     }
> >                     else{                                   
> > diff --git a/gtk/xoptions.c b/gtk/xoptions.c
> > index 51b9781..e1df9ca 100644
> > --- a/gtk/xoptions.c
> > +++ b/gtk/xoptions.c
> > @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ GraphEventProc(GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer gdata)
> >           kevent->keyval == GDK_KEY_Down ||
> >           kevent->keyval == GDK_KEY_Left ||
> >           kevent->keyval == GDK_KEY_Right))
> > -           return;
> > +           return FALSE;
> >  
> >  }
> >  
>
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