For sighted folks, they double click on the icon instead of the text area to ensure theat program or shortcut does what it suppose to do.
-------------------- regards Thomas N. Chan -----Original Message----- From: Neville [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 2:03 PM To: Thomas N. Chan Subject: Re: num pad slash edit box Yes, it appears so. Thanks Neville. On 25/05/2011 3:41 PM, Thomas N. Chan wrote: > This is absolutely normal. > This is how sighted folks change the label of the icon by clicking on the > text label. > Its not only for your system, in fact I think Win 95 or even earlier has > such function. > Why not you just hit enter on the icon or the shortcut then using the numpad > single click? > > > > -------------------- > regards > Thomas N. Chan > -----Original Message----- > From: Neville [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2011 7:49 AM > To: GW Micro > Subject: num pad slash edit box > > Hi Listers, > Using WE HP 32 WE 7.5 > > Has anyone come accross this strange problem or is it just my > system? > > While on the Desktop, if an icon is selected with the num pad keys, say > Firefox, then pressing the left click key once will open an edit box. > From this edit box, the name of the icon can be changed. It is like F2 > had been pressed on the icon. > > Pressing the slash or left click twice will open the icon as it should. > > This has only commenced in the past few days. This has been tested with > WE not loaded and with NVDA but the edit box does not open. > > Although WE says edit box and it functions as an edit box, the edit box > is not visible on the screen. > > Anybody got any comments or suggestions? > Thanks > Neville. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
