Hi
Well, the item chooser works in every window I've tried it in, but I
can't see why you'd need or want to use it in textedit. The find
command works just fine in edit fields and the like. Item chooser
won't help you find any text in textedit because all the text is
inside of one edit field, whereas on web pages every bit of text or
group of elements is an item. If you're editing a plain text file in
textedit, the window, aside from the menu bar which the item chooser
ignores, only contains the edit field as far as VO can see, and while
editing rtf or word files there is a toolbar above it. You can use
item chooser to locate items on this toolbar, if you want to.
hth
On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:41 PM, Ryan Mann wrote:
Is the Item chooser menu also supposed to work in Textedit? One
time I tried it and couldn't get it to work.
Original message:
Hi Scott
Yes, that is what it's supposed to do. However, for some reason, VO
does not recognize the fact that your place in the page has changed.
There is, however, a way to locate things within a web page. Use the
item chooser VO-keys+I while interacting with the HTML content area.
Once the item menu is up just type in a search string and the menu
will narrow down your choices to items containing only the string
you've typed (backspace will clear the entire string and display the
entire menu again). This is the approach I use all the time to find
specific points in a web page and I find it to work quite well. It
would be nice if the find command worked with VO a little better,
though.
hth
On Aug 23, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks, I may be wrong, but I assumed that command+f which brings up
a search box would allow you to search the current page for a word,
link, etc. Is that not correct? It sure doesn't work for me, I
generally get a busy message from Safari and after a minute or
less, it lands right on the link from where I started. Is there
some trick to this?
tnx
Scott
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