Hi all, After looking at recent messages on this forum, I thought about proposing the following: Most of you may know me as a code contributor to NVDA screen reader and author of several add-ons. But

Hi, Saving configuration is done in five steps: NVDA will see if it should save settings when exiting. If told to save settings, NVDA will first notify add-ons and other components that settings are a

Hi, As for profiles comment, consider the following scenario: Imagine a user creates two configuration profiles: a manual profile, and an app-specific profile. With this set up, three profiles will be

Hi all, A few things: Backing up settings somewhere: there is a facility in NVDA that will let add-ons react to settings save action. Using this facility, it is possible to create an add-on that will

Hi, A better way might be to say that: Sleep mode is application instance specific, or, in technical terms, process specific. There are programs that use one instance to display multiple windows, and

Hi all, Actually, sleep mode is application specific. One of the key application identifiers is process Id, and when you open different documents in Notepad, different Notepad instances are open. This

Hi, And that way is creating a dedicated app module that will force NVDA to put itself into sleep mode as long as the app module is active i.e. the window for the app where the app module is defined i

Hi everyone, No, this is not an add-on issue. I just tried searching for something with Google via Edge 97 and received a traceback that ends with COM error, and the traceback does not point to add-on

Hello everyone, Version 22.01 of the following add-ons are now available via Add-on Updater and on community add-ons website: Add-on Updater Clock Control Usage Assistant Enhanced Touch Gestures GoldW

Hi, The bridge is incomplete, I'm afraid. Please decorate the bridge with your current NVDA version, Windows release, and errors from the log if any. By the way, I advise against using nvda-project.or

Hi, It is a typical text file - one can open the log by pressing NVDA+F1 (although that command is meant for developers, it has also found useful for troubleshooting, too). Cheers, Joseph

Hi all, I wrote about the below thought briefly on add-ons list but I think it would be helpful to share: Although I personally believe that it is important to work with the native interface, I also t

Hi all, A few things come to my mind: User Account Control: usually there is a time limit when it comes to responding to UAC prompt. This happens when you install NVDA, too. If the user does not respo

Hello everyone, The following is a compatibility notice about Joseph Lee’s add-ons and support for Windows 7 and 8.x as a follow-up to the linked NV Access statement on NVDA and Windows 7: nvda@...

Hi I'm sure there might be questions about add-ons and Windows 7, and for those, please ask add-on developers for details. I'll put up a statement about my own add-ons soon. To add to a message from B

Hi, However, since Add-on Updater 22.01 is not available from community add-ons website, that method will not work for now. Cheers, Joseph

Hi, NOte that after installing the new add-on version from the below link, Add-on Updater may prompt you to "upgrade" to an older release; ignore it: https://github.com/josephsl/addonUpdater/releases/

Hi, Actually, I concur with Jackie - program-l is much better and is a general programming list for blind developers. The list does receive Python questions from time to time. Cheers, Joseph

Hi Gene, I think you did explain the high level overview much better than I did, so I guess our messages should be complementary. Cheers, Joseph

Hi all, First, to answer the original question, Control+Alt+arrow keys is typically used by Intel display drivers to set screen orientation. I believe you can turn off a setting in Intel graphics util