I guess I should clarify a bit. I use tiger a lot as though it were
windows. I noticed that the default was not to have all the cursors
inversely linked, but only linked one way. I tried it that way for a
while. I experimented with different combinations of linkage. For
instance, I looked at my empty deleted items command issue through
this process and found no solution there. I tried having the cursors
unlinked and moving them manually and this yielded no results. I
seldom use vo keys for dialogs but when I get the dialog for emptying
deleted messages, I will try and use vo keys when I cannot tab
through it. It sometimes works and some times does not and it seems
to be related to how much needs to be deleted although I don't know
why that should be the case. One thing I have not tried is to turn
off the spoken alert to see if for some reason vo is being trapped as
a result of it. There's another dialog that behaves similarly, but I
don't remember off hand what it is.
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Jan 4, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Jerry Halatyn wrote:
And I have found linking cursors to be more problematic. Isn't it
great that we have options?
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Subject: Re: Empty Deleted Items in Mail
Travis and all,
I found not having all cursors linked to be more problematical than
solution oriented.
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Jan 4, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
And here folks is one reason I do not have all my cursors stuck
together. I get thhis kind of behavior quite often, and not just
in mail. When it happens, I simply move vo cursor to one of thhe
other ones (keyboard focus, or mouse cursor) and the problem goes
away. I don't know what causes this behavior, but sometimes it is
quite anoying. However, generally, simply moving vo to another
cursor solves the problem quite well. Lately I've been having
this difficulty in safari. When clicking on links that pop-up
windows, or load audio contents, safari gets stuck in the same
rut, and then routing vo to another cursor is the only way to fix
it other than closing and reopening safari. <sigh> But it's only a
minor anoyance.
On Jan 4, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Tom,
I believe that you are confused by this thread. I understand the
concept of moving items between mailboxes and such and the idea of
selecting all messages in a specific mailbox as a way to delete
them. What we are speaking of here is the "Erase Deleted
Messages" menu item under the MailBox menu. This menu item has a
keyboard shortcut of cmd+k as well. When you attempt to use the
cmd+k method, which of course has the fewest key strokes, you get
the issue we were speaking of. It says "Dialog for InBox,
Messages Table" or something very similar. It appears to stay
locked in this screen until you do something that redraws the
window or VO is turned off and on again. Closing the InBox and
re-opening it seems to be one method that works to remedy this.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
