[nvda] Re: A few quite interesting behaviours with nvda

I don't know about the first one, but in Word I've had odd things happen with many screenreaders. The cursor oddity may I suppose be the way the system thinks you left it. I'm never quite sure if a reader should increment the cursor position or not, it would be nice to be able to do either sometimes.
Yes, combo boxes and highlighted text saying dieselected I have noticed recently, as with the non reading of some edit areas when you are actually trying to edit them. Goldwave has both these effects. In the case of the edit fields I imagine this is the way the system reveals the contents. Some edit fields work others do not. Look at Access for an example.
The deselected thing is, I think the system telling the truth. It correct on many edit fields when you start to edit, but not on combo boxes which momentarily go non highlighted of course. 

Brian

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Percinic" <mario.percinic@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: "NVDA mailing list" <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:58 PM
Subject: [nvda] A few quite interesting behaviours with nvda



Hey all.
I have a few very interesting observations with the latest 2300 snapshot and i saw them in the earlier snapshots so i'd like to check if the rest of the 
people have the same issues, or if it could be fixed somehow, or something
is wrong with my system.
1. When i use miranda messenger, if i focus to the output window with all
written and incoming messages, if i scroll with and arrow keys to read the
messages, when ever the message is read, after that nvda starts to deselect 
all the text from the window and it starts to read its content from top to
bottom of the window. Does anyone has a clew what's going on?
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, instead the cursor is somewhere on the beginning of the current 
page of the document, and sometimes even on the previous page, so i can't
find out where i stopped the reading of the document. Is there the way how
to solve this problem or does anyone has a clew what could cause this kind
of behaviour? I'm also looking for a solution of putting the bookmark or
placemarker or something in the document so that i can start reading where i 
stopped last time if the document is closed in the mean time.
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.
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. The same is if 
i scroll thru the data sheet with tab or shift tab keys, nvda stays quiet.
Also, if the cell has written comment, nvda doesn't anounce it at all, but
the other screen reader can identify it. Ok that could be the issue with
MSAA but anyway, very interesting behaviour, because if i'm correct that
worked before and i could edit the cells and read what's inside without
problems.
I'm attaching my log file if it could help.
Regards
mario




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