The answer to this is that you have spaces activated and you are
letting up on the option key while still pressing the control key.
Then when you press any of the arrow keys you slide into the next
space thus loosing your focus. The solution is to turn off spaces in
the system preferences.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Nov 24, 2007, at 8:44 AM, Larry Wanger wrote:
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.
