Thank you Crister. I am gonna give that a go, and see if that helps.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Krister Ekstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: Strange Voiceover behaviour - do yall have any idea?
You said you had Adium? Well here's my theory:
Well Adium can use Growl, the advanced messaging system to notify you of
certain events, so I think that this system dialog thingy comes up as a
result of Growl sending a message, probably to inform you that someone
has logged on or off or somesuch. You can use VO+F1 twice to get at this
system dialog, but if my theory is right, you will not be able to read
it. There's a workaround though: Go into System preferences and interact
with the scroll area there. Find the button that says "growl" and press
it.
Now you're in the settings dialog for Growl. This consists of five, i
think, tabs. Find the one that says "display styles" or something and
select it.
Change the display style to Speech and all should be fine because rather
than putting up an unreadable text window, Growl will use the system
voice or another voice you prefer to announce events that take place on
your system.
Hope this helps.
/Krister
25 okt 2008 kl. 14.42 skrev Chris Gilland:
OK, this is really bazaar. In voiceover, running on my Leopard box, all
I got runnin is voiceover, the finder, obviously, Skype 2.7, ITunes
8.0.1, and the most recent build of Adium. Sorry, don't remember the
version or build. It's the most recent though, that! I do! know.
in Adium, I have set up an msn account, an AIM account, and a Yahoo
messenger account.
Every now and then, I hear Voiceover say: System has new: System
dialog.
This happens when all apps are hidden to my Dock and I am focused in the
Finder on my Desktop. I don't mean a finder folder window. I mean
literally the physical desktop.
It just says this totally! at very very random ocasions. If I command
tab, nothing has come up on the screen more than what I already got
running. I also hit vo+F2 twice in each application to be sure
nothing's come up that I am not aware of.
I'm totally perplexed. If anyone has any clue, then yeah... I'd be real
interested in your theory. It's not really a problem at all, as much as
just kind a weird.
Chris.
