[program-l] Re: IBM Lotus Symphony Far Better Than Open/Libre Office
- From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:57:10 -0400
This is an interesting topic because in linux, some swing apps work just
fine, others don't even load, and others work wonders. It seems that Libre
Office works wonders in linux, but is barely usable, and fragile at best in
Windows. Does anyone know why this might be the case?
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Corbett, James
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:03 AM
To: 'program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [program-l] Re: IBM Lotus Symphony Far Better Than Open/Libre
Office
Hi:
You will find that most of the IBM offerings have been written using SWT in
place of AWT / SWING for rendering widgets to a screen. The SWT approach
relies solely on the native widget tool kit and does not use the JAB for any
of the accessibility aspects.
I've been developing JAVA Desktop solutions using SWT since 2005 and have
had great success with most of my applications. I use Eclipse as my IDE
which in turn is developed on the SWT framework.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Kerneels Roos
Sent: October 10, 2012 10:54 AM
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] IBM Lotus Symphony Far Better Than Open/Libre Office
Hi List.
Have not done a lot of work with it, but it appears that IBM Lotus Symhony
(free office suite comparable with Open/Libre Office) works far better with
NVDA on Win7 than the other two free options.
I understand that Lotus Symphony use a different interface technology which
is more accessible than the interface technology the other two office suites
use. I've read somewhere that it also does not require the JAB to be
installed.
I'm trying Lotus Symphony because I could not get any one of the other two
guys working smoothly with NVDA. Access via the JAB was very fragile
- it would stop working very easily, requiring that I kill the two soffice
processes before it would work again, and many times, while arrowing down
through documents speech would stop and I had to wait and arrow up before
arrowing down and hoping that speech would start again.
I would love to support Libre Office but it just does not work nicely with
NVDA. The problem is most likely with the JAB.
This is not a programming post / question but it relates to the JAB which is
relevant here. Anyone has more thoughts or suggestions about this?
Regards
--
Kerneels Roos
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Tel: +27 (0)811 2108
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