[nvda] Re: NVDA r380 released

Go to the window-eyes control panel, press alt followed by m for mouse and enter. The first item in there is "pointer identification delayed. Arrow up to pointer identification off and enter. don't forget to save the set file. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Curran" <mick@xxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 4:54 AM
Subject: [nvda] NVDA r380 released



Hi all,

I have just posted the NVDA r380 binary to the NVDA website:
http://www.nvaccess.org/nvda/

The changes from r348 to r380 are as follows:
*Improved responsiveness and accuracy of navigating around Outlook Express message edit controls and Internet Explorer edit controls.
*The names of email fields in Outlook Express like To, CC, subject are all reported correctly when moving between them.
*Page down in internet Explorer and Mozilla virtualBuffers now works properly, rather than moving to the bottom of the document.
*Some dialog box windows, which weren't being announced as dialogs are now announcing properly. Namely ones that use the TWizardForm class (such as Free Ino setup).
*More improvements to reading menus plus making sure that the focus is properly announced when leaving them. The new XP start menu seems to read ok now, previously some things wouldn't read unless you went in and out of one of the sub-menus.
*Fixed a bug with edit controls where lines could appear garbled or they could also just cause NVDA to freeze.
*Improved the loading of NVDA when run off a USB key. It now should start talking much earlier, while loading what it has to.
*AppModules (for MS Word, Excel, Miranda, Outlook Express etc) now should load properly in Windows 2000.
*Support for MS Word and MS Excel should load much more quicker. previously there was a possibility that it could take up to a minute to generate needed files. 

*Some unneeded files are no longer included in the binary package.
*Added basic support for the display on the Windows calculator. If its value changes it will be announced.
*If the control which has focus suddenly hides or disappears, NVDA will either try to correct the focus or announce that it has lost focus. An example of where this happens is in the repare dialog for a network connection.
*The title of a dos window is no longer announced each time the user runs a command with in the window.
*NVDA now recognizes TRichEdit windows properly as rich edit controls which makes them accessible.
*The dialogs for changing the synthesizer and the voice no longer cause NVDA to crash.
*Internet Explorer: Fixed a few little bugs where doing something too quickly, or before a virtualBuffer had completely loaded, would cause an error. 

*Image maps links in Mozilla Gecko virtualBuffers are now shown

*Improved support for links in dialog boxes (in Windows Vista).
*Fixed a spelling error in a message to do with not being able to find the status bar.
*Majorly improved performence when navigating in a rich edit control (such as in Wordpad). Moving with the cursor is much more responsive, and sayAll doesn't seem to crash any more.
*Redesigned the exit dialog to contain ok and cancel buttons, rather than yes and no buttons. The default is now ok which means you can just press enter to exit, and the escape key now works to get rid of the dialog with out exiting.
*Many internal changes which improve the way support for specific applications can be written, plus a few changes to try and improve memory leaks. 



Mick



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