Re: [orca-list] trouble with evolution / missing window-activate event

[Mike Gorse <mgorse alum wpi edu>]

Thanks, Joanie! That change does fix my issue.

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, Joanmarie Diggs wrote:

> So what I'm seeing locally (Evo 3.38.4) does not include any window
> activation or state-changed:active (true).
>
> Orca prefers window:activate, but also updates the active window in
> response to state-changed:active true. All I'm seeing in terms of the
> active state is from the frame is state-changed:active false. Then,
> when the menu claims focus (via the deprecated focus: event; not via
> object:state-changed:focused), Orca ascends the accessibility tree to
> get the containing window and checks to see if that window claims to be
> active. It doesn't. So Orca ignores the event.
>
> I just committed a workaround for the missing events in Orca master. In
> this particular case it should be safe. Please test and let me know.
>
> Thanks!
> --joanie
>
> On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 05:34 -0500, Mike Gorse via orca-list wrote:
> > accounts -> add, then I lose speech. When I look at the debug.out
> > (Joanie,
> > let me know if you'd like me to send it to you), I see a window-
> > deactivate
> > event followed by a window gaining the active state, but I don't see
> > a
> > window-activate for it, and that seems to be where trouble starts,
> > since
> > Orca no longer has an active script set. I vaguely feel like this has
> > come
> > up on the list before, possibly with some other application. Does
> > anyone
> > know if there's a gtk issue open for it?
> >
> > THanks,
> > -Mike
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