[brailleblaster] Re: The problems with the save settings dialog
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:23:16 -0500
Translation and anything associated with it should be disabled if
Braille support is not available. My intention was that if you didn't
have Braille support you could still edit in the Daisy view.
John
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:51:59AM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> OK, I notice something else which lead to me having a different conclusion.
>
> If one does not have Braille support enabled (I hadn't got liblouisutdml
> set up properly) then the text only radiobutton is selected by default,
> but once I had Braille support working no radiobutton has focus by
> default when both are available. This meant that at the beginning it
> appeared like I could gain access in one direction.
>
> However, adding a group does improve matters a bit, it means access can
> be achieved in one direction (like with the checkboxes).
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 26/07/2012 00:43, Vic Beckley wrote:
> >Michael,
> >
> >There was a problem when using checkboxes too. As long as you were in the
> >controls it worked fine. As soon as you would tab or shift-tab past the
> >last
> >control you would be in this limbo land and tabbing would do nothing. You
> >were probably in this shell object you describe. The radio buttons are not
> >the entire problem.
> >
> >
> >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: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:18 PM
> >To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [brailleblaster] The problems with the save settings dialog
> >
> >Hello,
> >The problem with selecting the radiobuttons for to save text or text and
> >Braille, it appears what the problem is that between the "Cancel" button
> >and the radiobuttons pressing tab or shift tab will take focus to the
> >shell object and then the focus will not move anywhere by using
> >tab/shift tab.
> >
> >I have looked at trying to set the tab order, this doesn't work,
> >essentially one gets the problem where the tab order cycles round.
> >
> >Not quite sure why this happens when using radiobuttons but not
> >checkboxes. I have tried using Group objects to group radiobuttons, but
> >this does not solve the issue.
> >
> >While I am at it though, I noticed that the dialog does not have a shell
> >as its parent, I would have expected the document window to be its parent.
> >
> >Also, may be this should be a proper dialog, you may want to read the
> >Dialog javadoc for SWT which shows creating custom dialogs (IE. one
> >which works in the way like the FileDialog provided by SWT, where it
> >will give you a result when calling open() to show the dialog).
> >
> >Here is a link to the Dialog javadoc from SWT,
> >http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.i
> >sv%2Freference%2Fapi%2Forg%2Feclipse%2Fswt%2Fwidgets%2Fpackage-summary.html
> >
> >Michael Whapples
> >
> >
>
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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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