Re: [orca-list] suggestion: provide error checking in orca's config files

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

hi
Actually, I'm not completely sure. I know orca complains about chrys'
progress bar configs, since they don't exist in orca from master, but do
exist in chrys'  fork. Of course when joanie merges this into orca for
3.20 this won't be a problem, but it did expose a bug, so was wondering.
At least orca starts, or it would be a lot more severe of a bug. As it
is, orca just won't open the preferences dialog, and prints tracebacks
if there are values it doesn't know about, such as chrys' progress bar
beeps combo box and the checkbox to control whether orca beeps and
speaks or just beeps.
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 09/13/2015 05:43 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 08:49:22PM AEST, kendell clark wrote:
> > orca hi all
> > This has been hovering on the edge of my mind for a while, but has
> > become important since I've been testing chrys's progress bar support in
> > orca. If you load an orca config file which contains values orca doesn't
> > recognize it simply crashes silently, or won't allow you to open the
> > preferences dialog to change values.
>
> When you say values that Orca doesn't understand, do you mean something
> along the lines of using a string instead of a float or integer? If so,
> GSettings can certainly help with this somewhat, as GSettings enforces
> correct data types when setting values.
>
> Luke
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