Re: Another small text editor for blind people
- From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:44:59 -0700
ok, I am a very limited programmer, keep that in mind here.
and I work in VB 6, no more, no less, I used to know another ancient
language but so little remains of those memories that's more than useless.
usually, in VB there was more than one way to display something, the first
was a standard, block stock object that would do the job. and then the
second option, which usually involved conversions of data, and customized
controls, and a lot of times proved troublesome or inaccessible with a
screen reader.
I was trying to ask if you had gone route 1 above, and used some sort of
"status bar", which it sounds like you in fact did, or put the information
of the cursor status on display in another way, which might have
inadvertently caused the continuous announcement trouble.
sorry, with my limits on programming I can't state it any clearer, due to
not knowing how to.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "QuentinC" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Another small text editor for blind people
I'm sorry, but I don't understand you about the status bar, even after I
read your point a couple of times.
On screen, it is a label which is located under the text area. It is
updated each time you move.
You can read it by pressing insert+page down with jaws or NVDA.
You can hide it by unchecking the show/hide status bar option in the
format menu if you don't like it, but if you do that you wont be able to
read it anymore.
I'm conscient of the problem: jaws is reading it all the time. However, I
haven't any solution at the moment but hiding it.
and I like the "smart home key" feature, its a fantastic idea, especially
for those working in heavy indenting languages such as I believe python
is,
that little item could save someone a good couple hours of needless
jumping
around to get to the actual characters in a line over the course of a
project.
That was precisely the goal.
If you create a script which indent automatically your code, it's even
better. You can write an indented code allmost as if it was flat. No
reason to hate indentation anymore. that's great !
I made a very simple script quite well suitable for brackets based
languages as a demo, if somebody is interested I can post it and you will
be able to improve it as you wish.
The best is coming, I'm developping a double cursor feature for beta 6. IF
you knew how I had that curious idea...
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