[libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Randall
Hi all. Well the subject pretty much says it, I got a notification there was an update to Java, I believe it is java 7 update five. Once I did the update my install of Libre Office no longer works. As soon as I try to start the program I get the standard windows 7 message about a problem has

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Randall
Hi Andreas, Unfortunately I do have to use java because the accessibility functionality of libre office depends on it, so disabling java is not an option. Thank you for the suggestion though as it might be useful to those who don't have to run java. Best regards, Tom -Original

Re: [libreoffice-users] latest java update has broken my install ofLibre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Randall
my install ofLibre Office. På Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:24:03 +0200, skrev Tom Randall kf6...@comcast.net: Hi all. Well the subject pretty much says it, I got a notification there was an update to Java, I believe it is java 7 update five. Once I did the update my install of Libre Office no longer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Randall
Hi Stuart. It seems that some people are having this problem and others are not. That is strange. I have tried both your suggestion of renaming my profile folder and Bjørn's suggestion of renaming that settings file. In both cases it still says that the JRE is defective when I try to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-26 Thread Tom Randall
Hi Stuart, thanks for this info this gives me some options to look at. I do not routinely have sighted assistance around to do this kind of thing so completely losing my screen reader is not really an option at this point however I can definitely look into some of these things later on, for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken my install of Libre Office.

2012-06-26 Thread Tom Randall
Hi all. Ok well I have done as complete an uninstall and registry cleaning as I can reasonably do at this point. After uninstalling all java related things including L.O. I cleaned the registry and there were in fact some errors that were corrected. So I then re-installed the programs in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: latest java update has broken myinstallof Libre Office.

2012-06-27 Thread Tom Randall
to launching LibreOffice after reload? That would be the entire C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice folder. Any difference working with a newly created user account? Stuart From: Tom Randall [mailto:kf6...@comcast.net] Sent: Tue 6/26/2012 11:10 PM

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Do You Share ODF Documents With MS OfficeUsers?

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Randall
Hi, absolutely agree about the hide extensions crap, this is indeed one of the first things I fix on any computer I am working on for anyone. I knew it went back a long way but pretty much the first version of windows I had a screen reader for was win98. It continues to be the same up through

Re: [libreoffice-users] Workaround for the Java 1.7.x compatibility problem

2012-07-29 Thread Tom Randall
Hi all. Well I hate to say this but I tried the suggested solution, followed the instructions very carefully. Everything worked fine up to and including restarting LO after fixing the Java. I was able to go into tools options java and it shows the new version with no errors as described in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Workaround for the Java 1.7.x compatibility problem

2012-07-29 Thread Tom Randall
to be entirely working. Specifically Supernova is still not able to read the menus or the state of checkboxes like it should be able to. It appears I am making some progress however. Regards, Tom -Original Message- From: Tom Randall Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 3:06 PM To: users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice and Java

2012-08-27 Thread Tom Randall
Hi Bob and all. I've been through the wringer on this and have still not got much of anywhere. It seems some people have major problems with this and some just don't seem to. I spent well over an hour going through the steps listed on bugzilla that were supposed to fix this, e.g.