I can also repeat most of this issue using the 7.1 beta 1 with a Braille
Lite M40 on a Toshiba laptop where Windows XP SP3 is the OS. The only
difference for me is that Window-Eyes reads Each new line. Therefore, speech
feedback is correct, but Braille is not.

 

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From: Richard Bartholomew [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 3:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Text search in Notepad & Braille display

 

Hi,

 

I can replicate the behaviour described below - using XP Home SP3 with a
PowerBraille 80.

 

 

From: David [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 15 June 2009 07:00
To: WE English mailing list
Subject: Text search in Notepad & Braille display

 

To show one exact example, of my problem, copy and paste the below 20 lines
into a blank document in Notepad. You will find, that there is 20 lines,
holding the word 'program' followed by a consequtive number - running from
01 to 20. This is just to make the example more straight to the point. I
realized the prblem yesterdqay, as I was doing some editing in a text
document of a few thousand lines, and where I had to do the foolowing search
task.

 

1. Copy and paste the lines into Notepad.

2. Goto the top of the document (CTRL-HOME).

3. Press CTRL-F, and the edit box for the search term, will open. Enter
'program' (omit the apostrophes), then press Enter, followed by the ESCAPE
key. 

4. Your Braille display will now show 'program 01'

5. Press F3, to go to the next found occurance of the word program.

6. Your Braille display will still show program 01. Press F3 twice more, and
finally, your display will change to 'program 04'. 

7. Press F3, again, and notice that the Braille line does not change, until
the THIRD press on the F3 key, when it all the certain Changes to program
07.

8. Continue the above steps, but now try to press END, after each F3
pressing. You will notice, that the Braille display now shows up the actual
line, that F3 takes you to - program 08, program 09, program 10, program 11,
etc.

 

Seems like WE has a bug here. Muy Braille display is running in the
'constructed' (that is the normal WE Braille) mode.

 

Hope this will be fixed, before 7.1 makes its final release.

 

Another thing, first we are talking about the search feature, it would have
been great if the user could have set we to Read-Out the line it landed on,
when doing a search. As it is, WE simply just announces 'find next', on each
pressing of the F3. Quite little helpful, and rather anoying, when you are
searching through a text, where you have to do several F3-presses, in a row.
If you want to know, what the search actually got you to, you will have to
do a up arrow, and then a Down-arrow, to have WE speak out the actual line.

 

Many years ago, actually I am of the oldtimers who started out with DOS, I
used a screen reader, which had the capability to define macros, on the
cursor, and function keys, even on the tab, and backspace keys. This meant,
that the user could make F3 do the search, and then the reading of the line,
or whatever feature he wanted carried out. HM! Really one of these cases,
when not all step forwards, and new software, is really steps forward. :)
What if WE had such capabilities? :D

 

--- Copy this text into notepad ---

program 01
program 02
program 03
program 04
program 05
program 06
program 07
program 08
program 09
program 10
program 11
program 12
program 13
program 14
program 15
program 16
program 17
program 18
program 19
program 20
--- Example text ends ---

 
 
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