[brailleblaster] Re: Snippets

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:25:05 -0500

Snippets are no problem. I am using elinks on Linux. When I press enter 
on a link the snippet is downladed and I can then save it. Why hasn't 
Eclipse set up the examples page similarly? Some Eclipse pages won't 
work at all.

John

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 09:04:23AM -0600, Susan Jolly wrote:
> John,
> 
> Do you have trouble getting snippets?
> 
> When I go to the page below I see a lot of links. When I left click on one 
> of the links using IE in Windows, it brings up a dialog giving me the 
> choice to either open or save the file.  (Alternatively I can right click 
> and get a popup where I can select the Save Target As ... item.) When I 
> select save, a second save as dialog opens asking me where to put the file. 
> Once I've selected save in the latter dialog, the desired snippet file gets 
> downloaded to my computer.
> This is a very common transaction and I'd think it would be supported in 
> screenreaders.
> 
> http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
> 
> Susan 
> 

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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities


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