[brailleblaster] Re: Sluggishness in file open ans save as dialogs
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 09:20:01 -0500
Hi Francois,
I'm glad to see you so interested. We need all the help we can get.
Perhaps you would like to discuss which menu items seem unnecessary.
Thanks,
John
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 09:42:14AM -0400, Fran�ois Ouellette wrote:
> There seems to be many little things to fix in the menus. There are several
> conflicts for the hot key settings in the properties file, for one. This
> means we have to correct the properties files. Also there seems to be many
> menu items that could be eliminated or simplified. Another issue is that
> currently most notification messages are hard-coded in the methods, which
> is wrong, they should be in the properties files in order to get displayed
> in the local language.
>
> In order to get familiar with the existing classes and interface I have
> enhanced a few functions already including the viewing of the translated
> braille with the SimBraille font and changing the font sizes. These will
> come handy for users with little or no visual impairment.
>
> I am now attacking the menu items that have to do with file handling
> features.
>
> F.
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Another small thing that I would like added would be the standard
> > accelerator keys such as Control-O, Control-N and Control-S We can all
> > discuss what additional ones we might want to add for BB but I think
> > Control-E to emboss now and control-T to translate. I know this is minor
> > but if it is easy why not add them.****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > Vic****
> >
> > E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > *From:* brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> > brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *François Ouellette
> > *Sent:* Friday, June 29, 2012 8:50 AM
> > *To:* brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > *Subject:* [brailleblaster] Re: Sluggishness in file open ans save as
> > dialogs****
> >
> > ** **
> >
> > Incidentally I have been looking at the GUI yesterday and there seems to
> > be lots of things to do in that area. Most menu items are yet to be
> > implemented, and the word processing functions are a bit elementary.
> >
> > John: I can sure look at the file open dialog and other things in BB. I am
> > using 64-bit Vista and Windows 7 systems.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > François****
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Vic Beckley <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:****
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > Yes, it is the standard Windows dialog and yes, it is just in
> > BrailleBlaster. The dialog works just fine everywhere else.
> >
> >
> > Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
> >
> > Vic
> > E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples
> > Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 7:55 AM
> > To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Sluggishness in file open ans save as dialogs
> >
> > Hello,
> > As far as I understand SWT uses standard windows common dialog boxes
> > (the standard open/save/print, etc), these dialogs do differ between
> > Windows XP and Windows7, eg. I have office 2003 here and observe the
> > difference in open/save dialogs even with office. When I am saying
> > differences I mean different layouts.
> >
> > Is it just BrailleBlaster which is impacted by being slow in open dialogs?
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > On 29/06/2012 12:46, Vic Beckley wrote:
> > > Francois,
> > >
> > > We have had a problem with the file open and save dialogs in BB ever
> > since
> > I
> > > have been involved with the project. With a screen reader running, the
> > > dialog gets very, very sluggish. Sometimes I have to wait up to 5 seconds
> > > before the focus change is spoken. It seems worst in the list of files. I
> > > don't see this under 32-bit XP. Where I do see it consistently is under
> > > 64-bit win7. The dialogs are completely different between the two. I
> > don't
> > > know if there could be a problem in how the dialogs are being called or
> > what
> > > might be going on. We have been looking for an experienced Windows
> > > programmer to look at this for a while. I haven't heard that John has had
> > > anyone look at this yet. It happens both with Window-Eyes and NVDA. You
> > can
> > > download a demo of Window-Eyes from www.gwmicro.com and you can get NVDA
> > > from www.nvda-project.org/ .
> > >
> > > John, would it be OK if he looked at this? Are you still seeing this with
> > > JAWS?
> > >
> > >
> > > Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
> > >
> > > Vic
> > > E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > ****
> >
> > ** **
> >
--
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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