Yes Andy and James, I can remember that at least on Ubuntu Linux, Libre Office + Orca worked really well apart from stability issues now and then - especially with Base which I think was not very stable yet at that time.
However, on WinXP 32 bit I have had great success with Open Office, with most if not all of the quirks encountered on Linux also showing up, but on Win7 there are so many additional problems that it is not a viable option.
So something has gone wrong from WinXP to Win7 and from the old JAB to the version that Oracle released for 32 and 64 bit JREs.
As a side note, does anyone know if the JAB keeps working after allowing the Oracle Auto Upater to update Java? I'm always saying NO because I don't want to go through all the effort of installing the JAB again :-)
Cheers On 2012/10/10 05:57 PM, Andy B. wrote:
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 Cell: +27 (0)79 696 6038 Tel: +27 (0)811 2108 LinkedIn: http://za.linkedin.com/in/kerneels Skype: cornelis.roos ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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