[nvda] Re: A few quite interesting behaviours with nvda
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Teh" <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:13 AM
Subject: [nvda] Re: A few quite interesting behaviours with nvda



Mario Percinic wrote:

2. I have ms office 2003 sp3, and if i read the text in ms word and i
stop the cursor with ctrl key, the cursor doesn't stop on the position
where i stopped it
Hmmm. Someone else reported this problem a while back. I've never been able to reproduce it, though. <grumbles>
Lol np i hope that this time together we will be able to catch it and solve it :) 


3. If i'm in the windows explorer or my computer, and for exampel i want
to rename the file name, if i press f2 to change the name of the file,
when i move thru the file name with left and right arrow keys, first
what i hear is "unselected". So it looks like that whole file name is
selected and if i move with the arrows it becomes unselected.
Correct. This is true for most edit fields in dialogs or forms - when they get focus, the text is initially selected. Incidentally, this means that if you want to delete the name, you can just press delete when it gets focus. 


Oh thanks for the explanation so that is natual windows behaviour.


4. When i'm in the excel 2003 and when i scroll thru the data sheet with
and arrow keys, nvda is reading their contents but if i try to edit the
sheet with f2 and copy its content, nvda doesn't anounce anything.
There is nothing we can do about this at the moment. Excel doesn't seem to provide an API for us to access the caret in its formula edit fields, so this probably won't be accessible until we get display hooks with caret tracking. Very frustrating. 

Hmm sucks pritty much i should say :)


same is if i scroll thru the data sheet with tab or shift tab keys, nvda
stays quiet.
This is probably an oversight on our part. I suspect the cursor keys have special handling, but tab and shift+tab do not. Feel free to file a ticket in Trac if you can.
Yes for sure i will get the ticket in the trac, i just got my account up and running. 
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