Preferences dialog does not close anymore

Hi,
just updated Orca to the very latest, and I had to realize,
that the
preferences dialog can't be closed by clicking OK. It stays
open until
you press escape.
What has gone wrong now? It seems that with every
improvement there
comes a new bug.
Hermann


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Hi Hermann:

I haven't experienced this.  My suspicion is that there
might be a bad 
line in your ~/.orca/user-settings.py or
~/.orca/orca-customizations.py 
file.  If you try something like moving your ~/.orca
directory to a safe 
place and then re-running Orca, do you still experience the
problem?

> What has gone wrong now? It seems that with every
improvement there
> comes a new bug.
>   

Sorry for the frustrations you are experiencing here.  We
definitely try 
to keep the releases somewhat stable, and I routinely run
the regression 
tests to check for problems. 

Can you tell me more about your Orca environment?  For
example, do you 
do things such as edit your ~/.orca/user-settings.py file? 
Do you 
download/install Orca from trunk?  Do you apply patches that
are 
attached to bugs, but not committed yet?  All of these
things leave 
plenty of room for error and can cause catastrophic failure
if not done 
correctly.  :-(

To help us better analyze what's causing the issues, you can
do the 
usual debug.out thing that you've helped us with in the
past.  In 
addition, if you run orca from the command line and save any
messages 
that might be output, we should be able to make some forward
progress.

Thanks!

Will

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am Sa 08. Mär 2008 um 17:19:42 schrieb Willie Walker
<William.WalkerSun.COM>:
> I haven't experienced this.  My suspicion is that there
might be a bad  
> line in your ~/.orca/user-settings.py or
~/.orca/orca-customizations.py  
> file.  If you try something like moving your ~/.orca
directory to a safe  
> place and then re-running Orca, do you still experience
the problem?

I've tested it again, and now it has gone. Really don't know
what caused 
this? I updated Espeak from the source and installed the
very latest 
Orca from SVN, that's all I did. I changed punctuation in
the general 
preferences and rechecked the table reading mode, because it
sometimes 
switches, without any reason, from "line" to
"cell"; I wrote about it. 
Clicking OK, caused Orca to save the settings, but not to
close the 
dialog. I repeated this several times, same results. Two
hours later, I 
retried it and now it seems to work properly; I'm really
confused.
[...]
> Can you tell me more about your Orca environment?  For
example, do you  
> do things such as edit your ~/.orca/user-settings.py
file?  

The only case I do this is when changing the debug output
mode in order 
to send debug.out.
I lately changed my orca-customizations.py to adjust the
length of 
"large objects" as Joanie has recommended in a
comment to my feature 
request on Bugzilla.

> Do you  
> download/install Orca from trunk?  

Yes. I started it, since I wanted to check out some new
features mainly 
applied to FF3.

> Do you apply patches that are  
> attached to bugs, but not committed yet?  

No I didn't.

> All of these things leave  
> plenty of room for error and can cause catastrophic
failure if not done  
> correctly.  :-(
>
> To help us better analyze what's causing the issues,
you can do the  
> usual debug.out thing that you've helped us with in the
past.  In  
> addition, if you run orca from the command line and
save any messages  
> that might be output, we should be able to make some
forward progress.
>

OK, I notice this for the future. I'm familiar with sending
debug files, 
but I didn't save start up messages till now.
Hermann
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Thanks for the update, Hermann!  I'm glad things are working
now, but 
I'm perplexed about what might have been broken.  :-( 
Keeping a record 
of any messages that are issued when running Orca from the
command line 
will definitely help in the future (I hope!).

Will

Hermann wrote:
> am Sa 08. Mär 2008 um 17:19:42 schrieb Willie Walker
<William.WalkerSun.COM>:
>   
>> I haven't experienced this.  My suspicion is that
there might be a bad  
>> line in your ~/.orca/user-settings.py or
~/.orca/orca-customizations.py  
>> file.  If you try something like moving your
~/.orca directory to a safe  
>> place and then re-running Orca, do you still
experience the problem?
>>     
>
> I've tested it again, and now it has gone. Really don't
know what caused 
> this? I updated Espeak from the source and installed
the very latest 
> Orca from SVN, that's all I did. I changed punctuation
in the general 
> preferences and rechecked the table reading mode,
because it sometimes 
> switches, without any reason, from "line" to
"cell"; I wrote about it. 
> Clicking OK, caused Orca to save the settings, but not
to close the 
> dialog. I repeated this several times, same results.
Two hours later, I 
> retried it and now it seems to work properly; I'm
really confused.
> [...]
>   
>> Can you tell me more about your Orca environment? 
For example, do you  
>> do things such as edit your
~/.orca/user-settings.py file?  
>>     
>
> The only case I do this is when changing the debug
output mode in order 
> to send debug.out.
> I lately changed my orca-customizations.py to adjust
the length of 
> "large objects" as Joanie has recommended in
a comment to my feature 
> request on Bugzilla.
>
>   
>> Do you  
>> download/install Orca from trunk?  
>>     
>
> Yes. I started it, since I wanted to check out some new
features mainly 
> applied to FF3.
>
>   
>> Do you apply patches that are  
>> attached to bugs, but not committed yet?  
>>     
>
> No I didn't.
>
>   
>> All of these things leave  
>> plenty of room for error and can cause catastrophic
failure if not done  
>> correctly.  :-(
>>
>> To help us better analyze what's causing the
issues, you can do the  
>> usual debug.out thing that you've helped us with in
the past.  In  
>> addition, if you run orca from the command line and
save any messages  
>> that might be output, we should be able to make
some forward progress.
>>
>>     
>
> OK, I notice this for the future. I'm familiar with
sending debug files, 
> but I didn't save start up messages till now.
> Hermann
>   

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