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what's new document:

  • Add ticket numbers to the changes since 0.6p1.

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    55*Improved the default ESpeak voice in NVDA 
    6 *Added a laptop keyboard layout. Keyboard layouts can be configured from NVDA's  Keyboard settings dialog 
    7 *Support for grouping items in SysListView32 controls, mainly found in Windows Vista. 
     6*Added a laptop keyboard layout. Keyboard layouts can be configured from NVDA's  Keyboard settings dialog. (#60) 
     7*Support for grouping items in SysListView32 controls, mainly found in Windows Vista. (#27) 
    88*Report the checked state of treeview items in SysTreeview32 controls. 
    99*Added shortcut keys for many of NVDA's configuration dialogs 
    1010*Support for IAccessible2 enabled applications such as Mozilla Firefox when running NVDA from portable media, with out having to register any special Dll files 
    11  *Fix a crash with the virtualBuffers Links List in Gecko applications 
    12  *Speech dictionaries (previously User dictionaries) now can be either case sensitive or insensitive, and the patterns can optionally be regular expressions 
    13  *Whether or not NVDA uses a 'screen layout' mode for virtual buffer documents can now be configured from a settings dialog 
    14  *No longer report anchor tags with no href in Gecko documents as links 
    15  *The NVDA find command now remembers what you last searched for, across all applications 
    16  *Fix issues where the checked state would not be announced for some checkboxes and radio buttons in virtualBuffers 
    17  *VirtualBuffer pass-through mode is now specific to each document, rather than NVDA globally 
    18  *Fixed some sluggishness with focus changes and incorrect speech interuption which sometimes occured when using NVDA on a system that had been on standby or was rather slow 
    19  *Improve support for combo boxes in Mozilla Firefox. Specifically when arrowing around them text isn't repeated, and when jumping out of them, ancestor controls are not announced unnecessarily. Also virtualBuffer commands now work when focused on one  when you are in a virtualBuffer. 
    20  *Improve accuracy of finding the statusbar in many applications 
    21  *Added the NVDA interactive Python console tool, to enable developers to look at and manipulate NVDA's internals as it is running 
    22  *sayAll, reportSelection and reportCurrentLine scripts now work properly when in virtualBuffer pass-through mode 
    23  *The increase rate and decrease rate scripts have been removed. Users should use the synth settings ring scripts (control+nvda+arrows) or the Voice settings dialog 
    24  *Improve the range and scale of the progress bar beeps 
    25  *Added more quick keys to the new virtualBuffers:  l for list, i for list item, e for edit field, b for button, x for checkbox, r for radio button, g for graphic, q for blockquote, c for combo box, 1 through 6 for respective heading levels, s for separator, m for frame 
    26  *Canceling the loading of a new document in Mozilla Firefox now allows the user to keep using the old document's virtualBuffer if the old document hadn't yet really been destroyed. 
    27  *Navigating by words in virtualBuffers is now more accurate as  words do not accidentily contain text from more than one field 
    28  *Improved accuracy of focus tracking and focus updating when navigating in Mozilla Gecko virtualBuffers 
    29  *Added a findPrevious script (shift+NVDA+f3) for use in new virtualBuffers 
    30  *Improved sluggishness in Mozilla Gecko dialogs (in Firefox and Thunderbird) 
    31  *Add the ability to view the current log file for NVDA. it can be found in the NVDA menu -> Tools 
    32  *Scripts such as say time and date now take the current language in to account; punctuation and ordering of words now reflects the language 
    33  *The language combo box in NVDA's General settings dialog now shows full language names for ease of use 
    34  *When reviewing text in the current navigator object, the text is always up to date if it changes dynamically. E.g. reviewing the text of a list item in Task Manager 
    35  *When moving with the mouse, the current paragraph of text under the mouse is now announced, rather than either all the text in that particular object or just the current word. Also audio coordinates, and announcement of object roles is optional, they are turned off by default 
    36  *Support for reading text with the mouse in Microsoft Word 
     11*Fix a crash with the virtualBuffers Links List in Gecko applications. (#48) 
     12*Speech dictionaries (previously User dictionaries) now can be either case sensitive or insensitive, and the patterns can optionally be regular expressions. (#39) 
     13*Whether or not NVDA uses a 'screen layout' mode for virtual buffer documents can now be configured from a settings dialog 
     14*No longer report anchor tags with no href in Gecko documents as links. (#47) 
     15*The NVDA find command now remembers what you last searched for, across all applications. (#53) 
     16*Fix issues where the checked state would not be announced for some checkboxes and radio buttons in virtualBuffers 
     17*VirtualBuffer pass-through mode is now specific to each document, rather than NVDA globally. (#33) 
     18*Fixed some sluggishness with focus changes and incorrect speech interuption which sometimes occured when using NVDA on a system that had been on standby or was rather slow 
     19*Improve support for combo boxes in Mozilla Firefox. Specifically when arrowing around them text isn't repeated, and when jumping out of them, ancestor controls are not announced unnecessarily. Also virtualBuffer commands now work when focused on one  when you are in a virtualBuffer. 
     20*Improve accuracy of finding the statusbar in many applications. (#8) 
     21*Added the NVDA interactive Python console tool, to enable developers to look at and manipulate NVDA's internals as it is running 
     22*sayAll, reportSelection and reportCurrentLine scripts now work properly when in virtualBuffer pass-through mode. (#52) 
     23*The increase rate and decrease rate scripts have been removed. Users should use the synth settings ring scripts (control+nvda+arrows) or the Voice settings dialog 
     24*Improve the range and scale of the progress bar beeps 
     25*Added more quick keys to the new virtualBuffers:  l for list, i for list item, e for edit field, b for button, x for checkbox, r for radio button, g for graphic, q for blockquote, c for combo box, 1 through 6 for respective heading levels, s for separator, m for frame. (#67, #102, #108) 
     26*Canceling the loading of a new document in Mozilla Firefox now allows the user to keep using the old document's virtualBuffer if the old document hadn't yet really been destroyed. (#63) 
     27*Navigating by words in virtualBuffers is now more accurate as  words do not accidentally contain text from more than one field. (#70) 
     28*Improved accuracy of focus tracking and focus updating when navigating in Mozilla Gecko virtualBuffers. 
     29*Added a findPrevious script (shift+NVDA+f3) for use in new virtualBuffers 
     30*Improved sluggishness in Mozilla Gecko dialogs (in Firefox and Thunderbird). (#66) 
     31*Add the ability to view the current log file for NVDA. it can be found in the NVDA menu -> Tools 
     32*Scripts such as say time and date now take the current language in to account; punctuation and ordering of words now reflects the language 
     33*The language combo box in NVDA's General settings dialog now shows full language names for ease of use 
     34*When reviewing text in the current navigator object, the text is always up to date if it changes dynamically. E.g. reviewing the text of a list item in Task Manager. (#15) 
     35*When moving with the mouse, the current paragraph of text under the mouse is now announced, rather than either all the text in that particular object or just the current word. Also audio coordinates, and announcement of object roles is optional, they are turned off by default 
     36*Support for reading text with the mouse in Microsoft Word 
    3737*Fixed bug where leaving the menu bar in applications such as Wordpad would cause text selection to not be announced anymore 
    3838*In Winamp, the title of the track is no longer announced again and again when switching tracks, or pausing/resuming/stopping playback. 
    3939*In Winamp,  Added ability to announce state of the shuffle and repeat controls as they are switched. Works in the main window and in the playlist editor 
    4040*Improve the ability to activate particular fields in Mozilla Gecko virtualBuffers. May include clickable graphics, links containing paragraphs, and other weird structures 
    41 *Fixed an initial lag when opening NVDA dialogs on some systems 
     41*Fixed an initial lag when opening NVDA dialogs on some systems. (#65) 
    4242*Add specific support for the Total Commander application 
    43 *Fix bug in the sapi4serotek driver where the pitch could get locked at a particular value, i.e. stays high after reading a capital letter 
    44 *Announce clickable text and other fields as clickable in Mozilla Gecko VirtualBuffers. e.g.  a field has an onclick HTML attribute 
    45 *When moving around Mozilla Gecko virtualBuffers, scroll the current field in to view -- useful so sighted peers have an idea of where the user is up to in the document 
     43*Fix bug in the sapi4serotek driver where the pitch could get locked at a particular value, i.e. stays high after reading a capital letter. (#89) 
     44*Announce clickable text and other fields as clickable in Mozilla Gecko VirtualBuffers. e.g.  a field which has an onclick HTML attribute. (#91) 
     45*When moving around Mozilla Gecko virtualBuffers, scroll the current field in to view -- useful so sighted peers have an idea of where the user is up to in the document. (#57) 
    4646*Add basic support for ARIA live region show events in IAccessible2 enabled applications. Useful in the Chatzilla IRC application, new messages will now be read automatically 
    4747*Some slight improvements to help use ARIA enabled web applications,  e.g. Google Docs 
     
    5050*The moveMouseToNavigator script (NVDA+numpadSlash) now moves the mouse to the centre of the navigator object, rather than the top left 
    5151*Added scripts to click the left and right mouse buttons (numpadSlash and numpadStar respectively) 
    52 *Improve access to the Windows System Tray. Focus hopefully should no longer seem to keep jumping back to one particular item. Reminder: to get to the System Tray use the Windows command WindowsKey+b 
     52*Improve access to the Windows System Tray. Focus hopefully should no longer seem to keep jumping back to one particular item. Reminder: to get to the System Tray use the Windows command WindowsKey+b. (#10) 
    5353*Improve performance and stop announcing extra text when holding down a cursor key in an edit field and it hits the end 
    54 *Stop the ability for NVDA to make the user wait while particular messages are spoken. Fixes some crashes/freezes with particular speech synthesizers 
    55 *Added support for the Audiologic Tts3 speech synthesizer, contribution by Gianluca Casalino 
    56  *Possibly improve performance when navigating around documents in Microsoft Word 
    57  *Improved accuracy when reading text of alerts in Mozilla Gecko applications 
    58  *Stop possible crashes when trying to save configuration on non-English versions of Windows 
    59  *Add an NVDA welcome dialog. This dialog is designed to provide essential information for new users and allows CapsLock to be configured as an NVDA modifier key. This dialog will be displayed when NVDA is started by default until it is disabled. 
    60  *Fix basic support for Adobe Reader so it is possible to read documents  in  versions 8 and 9 
     54*Stop the ability for NVDA to make the user wait while particular messages are spoken. Fixes some crashes/freezes with particular speech synthesizers. (#117) 
     55*Added support for the Audiologic Tts3 speech synthesizer, contribution by Gianluca Casalino. (#105) 
     56*Possibly improve performance when navigating around documents in Microsoft Word 
     57*Improved accuracy when reading text of alerts in Mozilla Gecko applications 
     58*Stop possible crashes when trying to save configuration on non-English versions of Windows. (#114) 
     59*Add an NVDA welcome dialog. This dialog is designed to provide essential information for new users and allows CapsLock to be configured as an NVDA modifier key. This dialog will be displayed when NVDA is started by default until it is disabled. 
     60*Fix basic support for Adobe Reader so it is possible to read documents  in  versions 8 and 9 
    6161*Fix some errors that may have occured when holding down keys before NVDA is properly initialized 
    6262*If the user has configured NVDA to save configuration on exit, make sure the configuration is properly saved when shutting down or logging out of  Windows. 
    6363*Added an NVDA logo sound to the beginning of the installer, contributed by Victer Tsaran 
    64 *NVDA, both running in the installer, and otherwise, should properly clean up its system tray icon when it exits 
    65  *Labels for standard controls in NVDA's dialogs (such as Ok and cancel buttons) should now show in the language NVDA is set to, rather than just staying in English. 
    66  *NVDA's icon should now be  used for  the NVDA shortcuts in the start menu and on the Desktop, rather than a default application icon. 
    67  *Read cells in MS Excel when moving with tab and shift+tab. 
    68  *Fix some double speaking in particular lists in Skype. 
    69 *Improved caret tracking in IAccessible2 and Java applications e.g. in Open Office and Lotus Symphony NVDA properly waits for the caret to move in documents rather than accidentily reading the wrong word or line at the end of some paragraphs. 
     64*NVDA, both running in the installer and otherwise, should properly clean up its system tray icon when it exits 
     65*Labels for standard controls in NVDA's dialogs (such as Ok and cancel buttons) should now show in the language NVDA is set to, rather than just staying in English. 
     66*NVDA's icon should now be  used for  the NVDA shortcuts in the start menu and on the Desktop, rather than a default application icon. 
     67*Read cells in MS Excel when moving with tab and shift+tab. 
     68*Fix some double speaking in particular lists in Skype. 
     69*Improved caret tracking in IAccessible2 and Java applications; e.g. in Open Office and Lotus Symphony, NVDA properly waits for the caret to move in documents rather than accidentally reading the wrong word or line at the end of some paragraphs. 
    7070*Support for AkelEdit controls found in Akelpad 4.0 
    7171*NVDA no longer locks up in Lotus Synphony when moving from the document to the menu bar. 
    72 *NVDA no longer freezes in the Windows XP Add/Remove programs applet when launching an uninstaller 
     72*NVDA no longer freezes in the Windows XP Add/Remove programs applet when launching an uninstaller. (#30) 
    7373*NVDA no longer freezes when opening Spybot Search and Destroy 
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    167162*NVDA's user interface settings dialog is now called General Settings. It also contains an extra setting: a combo box to set the log level, for what messages should go to NVDA's log file. Note that NVDA's log file is now called nvda.log not debug.log. 
    168163*Removed the report object group names checkBox from the object presentation settings dialog, reporting of group names now is handled differently. 
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