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keystroke for copy and pasting dialog boxes
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Daniel McGee
Hello all
With nvda, is it possible to copy and paste dialog boxes content? If so, I would greatly appreciate learning this. The objective being, to copy and paste an error message to do with nvda which I will detail in a new message. Thanking you in advance. Daniel |
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Gene
You can, buut do you know the review keys using the numpad in the desktop
layout or the equivalent when in laptop layout? At this point, I don’t
know how much or just what explanation would be necessary.
Gene -----Original Message-----
From: Daniel McGee
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 12:47 PM
Subject: [nvda] keystroke for copy and pasting dialog
boxes Hello
all With nvda, is it possible to copy and paste dialog boxes content? If so, I would greatly appreciate learning this. The objective being, to copy and paste an error message to do with nvda which I will detail in a new message. Thanking you in advance. Daniel |
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Daniel McGee
Alas, I don't know of this mode. How does it work and what are the laptop keystrokes? As I'm on a laptop here. On 19 Nov 2021, at 19:35, Gene <gsasner@...> wrote:
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Gene
I don’t use the laptop layout so I’ll let others discuss that.
There is an add-on which may let you do what you want. You can read
about it here.
but it still is a good idea and, at times necessary, to know the actual
review commands in NVDA itself.
Gene -----Original Message-----
From: Daniel McGee
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] keystroke for copy and pasting dialog
boxes Alas, I don't know of this mode. How does it work and what are the
laptop keystrokes? As I'm on a laptop here.
On 19 Nov 2021, at 19:35, Gene <gsasner@...> wrote:
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Just to get up on my recent soapbox in several venues, it cannot (and I'd say should not) be presumed that any random laptop user is actually using laptop keyboard layout.
NVDA uses desktop layout by default on any laptop on which I've installed it and the majority of laptops have been sporting a full-size desktop type keyboard for some time now. Laptops with classic laptop keyboard layout are the exception, not the rule. Keyboard layout depends on the keyboard itself, not the thing it's connected to or built into. One can use laptop layout with a full-size keyboard, but not vice versa. -- Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1, Build 19043 The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. ~ John F. Kennedy
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Gene
And I think it’s worth noting that using caps lock as an NVDA key is off by
default in both layouts and that it is very useful in the desktop layout if you
turn it on there. It isn’t just intended for use in the laptop
layout.
I use the desktop layout and I find execution of a number of NVDA commands
much more convenient using the caps lock.
Gene -----Original Message-----
From: Brian Vogel
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [nvda] keystroke for copy and pasting dialog
boxes Just
to get up on my recent soapbox in several venues, it cannot (and I'd say should
not) be presumed that any random laptop user is actually using laptop keyboard
layout. NVDA uses desktop layout by default on any laptop on which I've installed it and the majority of laptops have been sporting a full-size desktop type keyboard for some time now. Laptops with classic laptop keyboard layout are the exception, not the rule. Keyboard layout depends on the keyboard itself, not the thing it's connected to or built into. One can use laptop layout with a full-size keyboard, but not vice versa. -- Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H1, Build 19043 The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. ~ John F. Kennedy
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Quentin Christensen
Getting back to the original question, For a lot of dialog boxes such as error messages, you can actually copy them just by pressing control+c. I think it was an update to Windows a couple years back added that but I can't recall. I just opened notepad, typed a couple of characters and pressed alt+f4. When it asked me what I wanted to do, I pressed control+c and here's what I got: [Window Title] Notepad [Main Instruction] Do you want to save changes to Untitled? [Save] [Don't Save] [Cancel] On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 8:38 AM Gene <gsasner@...> wrote:
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Daniel McGee
Thank you all very much for helping me with this query. I'm going
to have to do some studying to learn about object navigation but
for now, Gene and Quentin have saved the day.
Unfortunately, the add-on wasn't able to capture the error message. However, the windows keystroke did. I wasn't aware of this new addition added to windows. Neat little feature Microsoft and for Quentin for bringing it to my attention.
Kind regards
Daniel On 22/11/2021 06:17, Quentin
Christensen wrote:
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