[nvda] Re: MSN / Windows Live Messengr History window

["Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mick, out of interest, can we now hear what we type in the input window?
Thanks!
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:08:14 +1000, "Michael Curran" <mick@xxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Hi all,
> A few people have been reporting problems with MSN / Windows Live
> Mesenger 
> and NVDA (specificly with the History window).
> 
> I just today fixed a problem with the history window where you couldn't 
> arrow around it any more. This broke due to changes in the new text API,
> but 
> from r996 that should be working fine.
> 
> People are reporting that non-english versions of windows live messenger 
> don't have working History windows, in the sence that you can't navigate 
> them and you can't hear incoming messeges.
> 
> This is because that for NVDA to identify the History window, it has to 
> check the window name. In english, the window name is "History", in other 
> languages it will be something else.
> 
> For NVDA to use History windows in other languages, translators of NVDA
> must 
> translate the "History" string (which comes from appModules/msnmgr.py) in
> to 
> the appropriate name for their language.
> 
> Of course I would prefer to use a much better way to track the History 
> window, but as far as I can see, there isn't any other way.
> 
> Just thought I'd mention all this to clear up any confusion.
> 
> Thanks
> Mick
> 
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