Hi:
This might have been covered previously, not sure. A few days ago I
made a discovery that I found interesting. Its sort of a visual thing
in some respects.
After upgrading to Leopard I discovered that I would be using a
program; email, Safari, Etc. and would all of the sudden see it vanish
from the screen and the focus of Voiceover would be on the desktop or
finder. For the life of me I could not figure this out. Then, I
realized that I could try to re-open the program. So, say for example
I was using Mail and it closed like this and Voiceovers focus was on
the finder or desktop. If I went to the dock and checked mail it would
say it was still running but when I clicked on it nothing would come
up on the screen. Yet, if I used the VO keys to move around it was
like I was working and reading in Mail. You can even see the VO curser
moving around on the screen over the top of icons or whatever you have
on the desktop. I could click links and surf in Safari, write in my
text document, whatever I wanted but if that was the program that had
vanished it would not appear on the screen. T bring the program back
to the screen I had to close out of it and then open it once again.
After a lot of playing around I figured out that I was not holding
down VO keys well enough. So, if I was reading an email and my fingers
let up on one of the keys and at the same time I arrowed, the open
program was sliding off the screen in the direction that I hit the
arrow. Further, it happens only if I let up on the option key to the
point that I'm not holding it down.
To mae this clearer, say I'm writing this email. If I were using the
VO keys to move around and let up on the option key and hit arrows,
the message and entire mail program vanishes from the screen. I can't
figure out how to bring it back visually; it only returns if I hit
control and arrow again in a certain direction and then VO doesn't
work properly.
This may have been mentioned before and perhaps folks have arrived at
a solution. I'm curious.
Thanks.
- discovery; why some programs loose focus Larry Wanger
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