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Add-on versioning
Such as Windows 10 App essentials?:) I have never been able to understand why that is an addon. Luke
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Such as Windows 10 App essentials?:) I have never been able to understand why that is an addon. Luke
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· #7342
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proposal: Don't list compat information on the website, unless we can automate a means of ensuring it won't become out of date.`
Listing the information on the website seems necessary, to cover the case of people who can't, or don't want to, update NVDA to the most current all the time. Not that my opinion counts for much here,
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Listing the information on the website seems necessary, to cover the case of people who can't, or don't want to, update NVDA to the most current all the time. Not that my opinion counts for much here,
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Luke Davis
· #7343
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proposal: Don't list compat information on the website, unless we can automate a means of ensuring it won't become out of date.`
May I ask why? This would seem reasonably easy, all be it not trivial, to setup with PHP and SQLite, unless I am missing something significant. I'm almost sure it shouldn't be necessary to manually up
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May I ask why? This would seem reasonably easy, all be it not trivial, to setup with PHP and SQLite, unless I am missing something significant. I'm almost sure it shouldn't be necessary to manually up
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Luke Davis
· #7410
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proposal: Don't list compat information on the website, unless we can automate a means of ensuring it won't become out of date.`
Does that mean that such a setup for addon pages would not be welcome or worth doing, until a new site/system comes along? I.E. likely some sort of CMS for the whole site? Because I could probably des
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Does that mean that such a setup for addon pages would not be welcome or worth doing, until a new site/system comes along? I.E. likely some sort of CMS for the whole site? Because I could probably des
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Luke Davis
· #7412
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Reflection concerning layered commands
I find this statement confusing, and seemingly wrong. I am no Python expert, however, so perhaps I am missing something. Therefore I write this message so that I might learn something. I apologize if
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I find this statement confusing, and seemingly wrong. I am no Python expert, however, so perhaps I am missing something. Therefore I write this message so that I might learn something. I apologize if
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Luke Davis
· #7620
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Reflection concerning layered commands
That may be, but Joseph's comment is compelling: regardless of what the original function did--and if it did this I would suggest it shouldn't have--it seems like bad form to take a complex key sequen
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That may be, but Joseph's comment is compelling: regardless of what the original function did--and if it did this I would suggest it shouldn't have--it seems like bad form to take a complex key sequen
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Luke Davis
· #7621
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Reflection concerning layered commands
Hi Abdel Perhaps I am missing some intricacy of the passing structure here, but why are you passing gesture to script_error? It never does anything with it. Is this future proofing? Or is there anothe
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Hi Abdel Perhaps I am missing some intricacy of the passing structure here, but why are you passing gesture to script_error? It never does anything with it. Is this future proofing? Or is there anothe
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Luke Davis
· #7628
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Reflection concerning layered commands
Ah thanks. I haven't had a chance to read the dev guide yet (having just found it today). Luke
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Ah thanks. I haven't had a chance to read the dev guide yet (having just found it today). Luke
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Luke Davis
· #7633
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Reflection concerning layered commands
Developer guide: https://community.nvda-project.org/documentation/developerGuide.html Add-on Development Guide: https://addons.nvda-project.org/devDocs/devDocs.en.html Luke
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Developer guide: https://community.nvda-project.org/documentation/developerGuide.html Add-on Development Guide: https://addons.nvda-project.org/devDocs/devDocs.en.html Luke
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Luke Davis
· #7648
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Reflection concerning layered commands
Correcting my own message: I apologize, that link was invalid. Stupidly, I assumed the link to the main developer guide that is provided in the add-on dev guide was accurate without actually checking
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Correcting my own message: I apologize, that link was invalid. Stupidly, I assumed the link to the main developer guide that is provided in the add-on dev guide was accurate without actually checking
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Luke Davis
· #7649
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Reflection concerning layered commands
Thanks for the correction. Curious though, why the "really outdated" version is the one being maintained on nvda-project.org? It seems unnecessarily confusing to keep, on what seems to be an officiali
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Thanks for the correction. Curious though, why the "really outdated" version is the one being maintained on nvda-project.org? It seems unnecessarily confusing to keep, on what seems to be an officiali
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Luke Davis
· #7660
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Minor question re gesture string identifiers
Hi In the dev guide [1], it states: " A gesture identifier string is a simple string representation of a piece of input. It consists of a two letter character code denoting the source of the input, an
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Hi In the dev guide [1], it states: " A gesture identifier string is a simple string representation of a piece of input. It consists of a two letter character code denoting the source of the input, an
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Luke Davis
· #7663
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Minor question re gesture string identifiers
Ah, so this document was written with a British/Australian/SA context, at least according to Wikipedia's notion of terminology: " In addition to referring to the class of all types of brackets, the un
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Ah, so this document was written with a British/Australian/SA context, at least according to Wikipedia's notion of terminology: " In addition to referring to the class of all types of brackets, the un
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Luke Davis
· #7687
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Minor question re gesture string identifiers
Hi Tom. I assume you're talking about the thread "Can I get the key name from a gesture object?". You will note, that this thread is not that one. You started that one, I started this one, about diffe
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Hi Tom. I assume you're talking about the thread "Can I get the key name from a gesture object?". You will note, that this thread is not that one. You started that one, I started this one, about diffe
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Luke Davis
· #7697
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Add-on development guide: let us remove the one found on add-ons community website in favor of GitHub version
Hi Damien and others: +1 The thing is, it may be less work for the authors, but that's because it is work that has already been done in dozens of other tutorials. They shouldn't really set themselves
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Hi Damien and others: +1 The thing is, it may be less work for the authors, but that's because it is work that has already been done in dozens of other tutorials. They shouldn't really set themselves
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Luke Davis
· #7698
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Add-on development guide: let us remove the one found on add-ons community website in favor of GitHub version
Damien You wrote: I thought you had every good reason to write your views here. At least as much right as I--a relative newcomer--had. I may not have agreed with them, but you cogently raised points v
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Damien You wrote: I thought you had every good reason to write your views here. At least as much right as I--a relative newcomer--had. I may not have agreed with them, but you cogently raised points v
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Luke Davis
· #7731
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Add-on development guide: let us remove the one found on add-ons community website in favor of GitHub version
Perhaps an RFC about exactly what should be in an add-on guide would be in order, though outside the scope of this thread. What it most sounds like, is that you need a break. Time off to gain some pro
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Perhaps an RFC about exactly what should be in an add-on guide would be in order, though outside the scope of this thread. What it most sounds like, is that you need a break. Time off to gain some pro
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Luke Davis
· #7732
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Can I get the key name from a gesture object?
I haven't been following this thread with greatest attention, so maybe a stupid question, but if having the keys in an uncertain order like that is the only issue, could you not just tokenize on the p
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I haven't been following this thread with greatest attention, so maybe a stupid question, but if having the keys in an uncertain order like that is the only issue, could you not just tokenize on the p
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Luke Davis
· #7735
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NVDA Add on Development Guide and Notepad++
Hello Is there a particular reason that the Addon dev guide suggests downloading Notepad++ 6.8.3 (a 2015 version)? From what I can tell, that is only available as 32bit. The current version is 7.6.6.
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Hello Is there a particular reason that the Addon dev guide suggests downloading Notepad++ 6.8.3 (a 2015 version)? From what I can tell, that is only available as 32bit. The current version is 7.6.6.
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Luke Davis
· #7752
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NVDA Add on Development Guide and Notepad++
So I see. I have skipped the installer and just used the raw zip archive of the newest version, and noticed that feature. But I was mainly curious if there was an actual reason the older version was b
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So I see. I have skipped the installer and just used the raw zip archive of the newest version, and noticed that feature. But I was mainly curious if there was an actual reason the older version was b
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· #7754
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