I rebooted and I'm not seeing the problem. Must be something going on
with my PC.
Gary
On 2/1/2017 3:22 AM, David Bailes wrote:
Hi Gary,
Yes, I'm monitoring events with the MSAA event tool, accevent.
When the preferences dialog opens, there are seven focus events. There are all for a tree control. The names of the first four are all "file menu", and the names of the last three are the correct name of the item in the tree, for example devices. This is obviously more than necessary, and the events with the name "file menu" are spurious, but it should still work. Using narrator on windows 10, there is a long pause after opening the dialog, but it does announce the correct control.
When the preferences dialog closes, there's a singe correct focus event.
I've checked Audacity 2.1.1 and 2.1.2, and the events generated are the same as 2.1.3 alpha.
David.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Gary Campbell <campg2003@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:campg2003@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Yes, I tested with the script disabled and still saw it several
times. Are you monitoring events with the MSAA event tool?
Gary
On 1/31/2017 3:51 AM, David Bailes wrote:
Hi Gary,
concerning the focus problem when opening or closing preferences.
I can't reproduce the problem. Do these problems occur if you are
not running your script.
In terms of focus events being sent by Audacity, I can't see any
difference between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 alpha.
When opening preferences, there are focus events for a file menu,
no idea why, followed by focus events for an item in the tree
view. But the file menu events were present in 2.1.2.
When closing preferences, there appears to be only a single
correct focus event.
David.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Gary Campbell
<campg2003@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:campg2003@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi,
Running a nightly build, particularly near the time of a new
release, will probably work pretty well and can be
advantageous both because you can take advantage of the new
features and because you have a better chance of getting
accessibility problems fixed in the new release. However,
you may not want to install a nightly for fear that it might
trash your current installation. Here's how I set up a
nightly build so that I have my environment but don't trash
my production installation.
The "nightly" builds are here
<http://gaclrecords.org.uk/win-nightly/>. You can use a
nightly without affecting your 2.1.2 installation:
* Unpack the zip file somewhere. Its contents are
contained in a folder named something like
audacity-win-rdd836f4-2.1.3-alpha-28-jan-17.
* In that folder (which contains audacity.exe), make a
folder called Portable Settings. This will cause
Audacity to place its configuration files here instead of
overwriting the ones for your normal installation.
* Run audacity.exe to start the program.
It's simplest to leave Portable Settings empty and let
Audacity make its config files, but if you have
configurations, key assignments, plug-ins etc. that you want,
you can copy the contents of %appdata%\Audacity into Portable
Settings. You should close any running Audacity windows
before you do this, but if you don't, when you start the new
Audacity it will try to recover the project you had open. You also probably don't want to copy the Plug-Ins folder,
even if you have installed additional plug-ins. The copy of
audacity.cfg will give you your preferences, including custom
key assignments. If you don't have extra plugins, you might
not want to copy pluginregistry.cfg, and pluginsettings.cfg,
so you will end up with just the plug-ins included in the new
release. If you do copy these files, you will notice that
many Effects, Generators, and Analyzers menu entries are
submenus containing several entries, one for each version you
had plus the ones from the new build. If this happens, you
can get them out of your way by:
* go to Effects > Add / Remove Plug-ins...
* Select the Show enabled radio button.
* Go through the list of plug-ins and press SPACE on every
entry you don't want. I disable everything from other
locations unless the current version doesn't have the
plug-in. This makes sure that you are using the new stuff.
* Press ENTER to close the dialog.
It will speed things up a little if you notice the characters
in the name of the build folder that follow "win-" that you
are setting up so you don't have to listen to the whole path
to know where this entry lives.
The nightlies don't come with the help file, so you might
want to open Preferences (Control+p), press "i" until you get
to Interface, press ALT+m to move to Display Location of
Manual, and choose From Internet. Then press ENTER to close
the dialog.
One of the things I have observed is that sometimes when the
Preferences dialog opens or closes, the focus is on the
top-level window instead of the tree view. When the dialog
opens JAWS may say "Audacity not responding", wait a while,
and then eventually say "track view table". (I don't remember
if it says "Audacity not responding" when focus moves to the
tree view-- it hasn't happened recently!) When this happens
you can try clicking somewhere in the window. When exiting
the dialog this happens more often when pressing ESC than
ENTER. If there are no tracks in the project, you may have to
click on something that is there, like Project Rate in the
Selection bar and then go back to the track panel.
Hope that helps.
Gary
