OK, got no answer for you. Still some reflections.
I just tried VV in Thunderbird, both in the list of messages, and in an open message window. I tried running VV, choosing the Active Window - it worked just fine. I tried running VV, asking it to go for the focused window - it worked as ever before. Accordingly, I have to conclude the app works as expected on this system, as per date. Then the big question would be, why it doesn't on your computer? Or, even better, how to remedy? Like I said, no answer's given. But it is not totally clear to me, at what point you get the error. Let's break it down for a moment. 1. You bring up a screen, like the folder list in Thunderbird. 2. You hit the hotkey for VirtualView to kick in. 3. The app will come up with a menu dialog, which will let you choose whether the app should care about the Active, Focused window, or if it even should go grab a file, and perform its action there instead. 4. You make your selection, and hit Enter. 5. The app does its job, and provide you with a dialog holding the end results. 6. You read the dialog. 7. You close the dialog, thereby ending the process. Could you please tell us, exactly in which step is it that you get the error? Maybe, and I am only saying perhasp, we then will be able to get to the bottlenecked reason why you are seeing the behavior. OK, I am still on Win7Pro, and for what that could be worth, it is a 64-bit OS. If you are on another OS, I do not know if that would have an impact, especially if you recently had an OS upgrade of some sort. Did you recently install any other pieces of software? Or, even uninstall anything on your computer? Things that in its basics does have nothing to do with the screen reader, might sometimes impact certain files that could make the screen reader go heywire. Even apps under WinEyes, have sometimes been seen to have impact on general computer activities. Further, did you try running a good old cleanup on your computer? Running all security, and anti software you might have accessible? Things like certain cookies from the internet, though claimed not to affect the computer, still opens up for other software to behave unexpected. If you are on a traditional hard drive, a defragmentation might be worth a try. This last idea is backed by the fact that Tom pointed out, the app wants some info that apparently is not ready for it, when it expects to find it. a slow hard disk, due to heavy background activity or extensive fragmentation, could be one reason for the info not to be well-prepared in time. So even trying to make sure no other activity is going on in the background - like temporarily disconnecting from the internet, cold booting your computer and only open ONE piece of software before running the VirtualView app - it all could be one way to trace things. Now, lastly, I am going to give you an advice, you might have wanted to see be the first one. Most WE apps, including the VV, base their activity on the GWToolkit app. So is especially the case, when comes to things like displaying dialogs. Might it happen to be, that something has gone crazy in your GWToolkit? Could you try reinstalling that one, and see if that fixes anything? Before I am tuning out, what other apps do you have operative in your WinEyes? Just in case something there, would be the trouble-maker. Some kind of conflics. OK, sorry I only left you with numerous, likely little helpful questions. But that was all I could come up with. Unfortunately for the case, the app is cryptized, and the developer is out of reach. Sure thing, it tells us which line in the app code to hunt for the troubleshooting, yet that is of little value, since we do not have access to either the code, nor the developer. At least, you now know, something must be on your system, since things work on others. I am not aware anyone else ever reported the issue you are facing. Really hope we can get it solved for you. Tom, you think it could be, that his OCR component somehow got messed up, or broken? That the issue is not with the VV app, but rather with certain components that it bases its activity on? On 10/31/2017 12:46 AM, Tom Kingston via Talk wrote: > Hmm. You see these errors "all the time" Rod? > I don't recall ever seeing such an error. Making sure the object > exists and pausing and trying again if it doesn't should prevent this > most of the time. But of course there are always exceptions to the > rule. We can only pause and try again so many times before assuming > we're not going to get what we want. Then we should notify the user > and bow out gracefully. > If I remember right Aaron Smith wrote virtual View. And I'm sure he > incorporated proper error checking and handling. > Virtual View works fine here in Thunderbird, which is where Larry was > running it. > Larry. Given the name of the object (dlgResult) it is for a dialog. If > you're getting this error on launch before anything comes up in > Virtual view then it's on the main window creation, which is strange > because it's just an XML dialog. But if the main window opens and you > get it when pressing the OK button after making your selection then > something in that selection is throwing an error. > Just for the heck of it I'd open the Control panel, Programs and > Features. > Shift+Tab up to the Turn Windows features on or off link and activate it. > Make sure Windows TIFF iFilter is checked. It's the OCR component in > Windows. > Hth, > Tom > > > On 10/30/2017 6:03 PM, Rod Hutton via Talk wrote: >> Hi Larry, >> >> This looks to me like an app error similar to errors that I encounter >> all the time when an app needs info which isn't ready to be delivered >> to it. >> If you know how to open the App Manager, simply reload the app and >> see if the app then loads properly. >> Alternatively, simply shut down WE with Ctrl-Insert-F4 and Enter and >> then restart it using Ctrl-Alt-W. >> >> Hth, >> >> Rod >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Talk >> [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On >> Behalf Of Larry Higgins via Talk >> Sent: October 30, 2017 5:52 PM >> To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> >> Cc: Larry Higgins <larryhiggin...@comcast.net> >> Subject: An error when trying to use virtual view >> >> Dear Listers, >> >> >> I've never encountered this one before. For some reason I am getting the >> below error whenever trying to use Virtual View. I have tried >> reinstalling using Apget, but this seems to do nothing to help. Any >> ideas please? I just hope this isn't a sign of WE falling apart as I >> speak. >> >> >> I must say that this makes me a little paranoid. I'm thinking that there >> might be a bit of sabotage goin' on somewhere <smile>. But this kind of >> serious. There are just times when I find this app to be quite useful, >> as I'm sure all of you do. >> >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated, >> >> >> Larry >> >> >> "An Error Occurred in Virtual View 5.0.5 (800A01A8) >> >> Description: Object required: 'dlgResult' >> Line: 903 >> >> Path: C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Roaming\GW >> Micro\Window-Eyes\users\default\virtualview.vbs.wecrypt.wsf >> Signed: >> >> Active Window Title: Inbox - larryhiggin...@comcast.net - Mozilla >> Thunderbird, XUL, MozillaWindowClass >> Active Window Set File: thunderbird.set >> Focused Window Module: XUL, MozillaWindowClass >> Window-Eyes Version: 9.5.4.0 >> Active Synthesizer: Eloquence >> Active Braille Display: None >> OS Version: 10.0 (16299) SP: 0.0 >> GW Toolkit: 8.6.8" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the >> author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >> >> For membership options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/rod_hutton%40hotmail.com. >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> _______________________________________________ >> Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the >> author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. >> >> For membership options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/tom.kingston%40charter.net. >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> > _______________________________________________ > Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. > > For membership options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/trailerdavid%40hotmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > . > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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