For the sake of completeness, it should be noted that other screenreaders (SuperNova, and possibly JAWS) do not have this issue. I'm not trying to start a screenreader flame war (so please, don't start one), I'm just saying they do something that isn't affected by this redrawing, so it's certainly possible. ----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Smith To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 2:19 PM Subject: Re: Notepad++ (Possibly Slightly OT) I do use NP++, but not with a screen reader -- it's a sighted thing. The issue you're having has to do with the fact, inane that it is, that they redraw the entire line every time the cursor blinks. You can get around this problem in Notepad++ by changing the default theme to something like Zenburn (under Settings -> Style Configurator -> Select Theme). One potential drawback to that is your highlights will most likely be affected. You could instead just change the font style of the default theme to something like Consolas instead of Couriew New. I'm not sure we have a solution for this -- they're really doing awful things with the text. Aaron On 3/27/2011 9:36 PM, Jared Wright wrote: Wondering if there are any Notepad++ users on list. I thought I recalled Aaron using it at one point and some others might that I do not know about. If so, I'm wondering about some inaccuracy in the text editing window that I see with Window Eyes. When moving by word or character, I often get dings or double speaking of characters when there shouldn't be. For example, consider the line: this (is a test) how fun Basically every time I arrow over this text in Notepad++ by character, the paren characters are spoken twice instead of the paren character and the character immediately to its right. For instance, the 'i' in 'is' is always replaced when reviewing by character by a '(', and instead of the space character I'd expect I get the ')' spoken.. These results are the same no matter which direction I'm moving in. Also, moving by word consistently produces dings, and they seem particularly concentrated when the word has leading or trailing parentheses. Is this something in Notepad++'s syntax highlighting that is confusing Window Eyes? I disabled the 'Enable current line highlighting' in the preferences dialog, but no difference. I have changed the language setting to text (figuring this has the least amount of syntax highlighting cuteness) but again no difference. I have reclassed the text area to an editbox, but that also does not produce any different results for better or worse. If noone's played with Notepad++, please ignore my ranting, although I'm taking suggestions for windows text editors with strong coding features. EdSharp is fantastic at first glance, but it has a collection of quirky, difficult to duplicate bugs that make it frustrating to work with sometimes. I'm a little cool on UltraEdit, 'cause $50 seems a lot for a text editor, and VBSEdit is apparently good, but the majority of my programming is not in VBScript. I have been doing more programming targeted at the Windows platform lately (including a few things for Window Eyes), and it's just not convenient to do the coding for this in Emacs and GEdit over on the Linux side, which is what I've been doing for some time. -- Aaron Smith Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team.
