Hi Dan, On Jan 20, 2008, at 04:28AM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > >Ah ok, that's interesting that in that situation, you can't use VO >backslash to expand that. >Option click worked nicely, and I was able to do that with no problem >Thanks
Jacob's answer, posted after mine, of using VO+space to open disclosure triangles is probably a better answer to use and to remember. This sequence "performs the default action" -- which in this case is to open the disclosure triangle. I'm using Tiger, and I haven't had the occasional VoiceOver freezing problems he finds in Leopard (but not in Tiger) when he opens the triangles with cursor tracking on, but he very nicely gives the recommended fix for this (turn cursor tracking off temporarily with VO+shift+F3) and advice on what to do if there is a freeze-up (command+tab away from the finder application, then switch back and close the window with command+w). Option-click is a general Mac keyboard shortcut for toggling disclosure triangles under Get Info and is not specific to VoiceOver. I'm guessing that VO backslash expands folders, but it doesn't work in general to expand all disclosure triangles because some of these don't have folder-like structures. Your very welcome. Cheers, Esther >On 20-Jan-08, at 3:47 AM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008, at 09:06PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: >>> I have a file type which I wanted to always open with VLC when >>> double- >>> clicked, and I hit command i on the file to go in and set that up, >>> and when I got to the open with section of the info for the file, VO >>> said that the disclosure triangle was not expanded, and I hit VO >>> backslash to expand it, and all I got, was a ding. Any ideas anyone? >> >> To open the disclosure triangle under the Get Info section of the file >> you're checking, try using Option-click (where you click with your >> mouse or trackpad button). That should work to toggle the >> disclosure triangle between collapsed and expanded. (Note: I have >> "Mouse Cursor tracks VoiceOver Cursor" checked in my VoiceOver >> navigation options. If you don't have your mouse cursor tracking >> your VoiceOver Cursor you'll need to use VO-keys+Command+F5 >> to move your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor before you do >> an Option-click. As always, on laptops you may need to also press >> the FN key with the F5 key.) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> > > > >
