Re: [Hpr] Gambas, was: @Ahuka; Libreoffice base?
Installed gambas. As suspected, totally silent and inaccessible. On 30/11/2014 12:59, Mike Ray wrote: Nigel, I took a look at the gambas web-site and read the intro. Sounds good but I was dismayed to read that the IDE(?) is currently written using the Qt toolkit, which is notoriously bad for accessibility. Are you able to confirm that forms are stored as some kind of text, perhaps XML and thence hackable from a text-editor? Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla (It's a long way by the rules, but short and efficient with examples) Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
Re: [Hpr] Gambas, was: @Ahuka; Libreoffice base?
That's a shame. On 11/30/2014 8:20 AM, Mike Ray wrote: Installed gambas. As suspected, totally silent and inaccessible. On 30/11/2014 12:59, Mike Ray wrote: Nigel, I took a look at the gambas web-site and read the intro. Sounds good but I was dismayed to read that the IDE(?) is currently written using the Qt toolkit, which is notoriously bad for accessibility. Are you able to confirm that forms are stored as some kind of text, perhaps XML and thence hackable from a text-editor? Mike -- Kevin B. O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com http://google.me/+kevinobrien There's a difference between tempting fate and giving it a lap dance. ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
Re: [Hpr] Gambas, was: @Ahuka; Libreoffice base?
I haven't given up on it yet. Qt is patchy for a11y but may not be totally useless. On 30/11/2014 17:31, Kevin O'Brien wrote: That's a shame. On 11/30/2014 8:20 AM, Mike Ray wrote: Installed gambas. As suspected, totally silent and inaccessible. On 30/11/2014 12:59, Mike Ray wrote: Nigel, I took a look at the gambas web-site and read the intro. Sounds good but I was dismayed to read that the IDE(?) is currently written using the Qt toolkit, which is notoriously bad for accessibility. Are you able to confirm that forms are stored as some kind of text, perhaps XML and thence hackable from a text-editor? Mike -- Michael A. Ray Analyst/Programmer Witley, Surrey, South-east UK Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla (It's a long way by the rules, but short and efficient with examples) Interested in accessibility on the Raspberry Pi? Visit: http://www.raspberryvi.org/ From where you can join our mailing list for visually-impaired Pi hackers ___ Hpr mailing list Hpr@hackerpublicradio.org http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
