nvda does not support dropdown menus and lists in excel 2010

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Reported by gregjozk_ on 2013-07-24 13:19
When working in excel documents (example is attach here) nvda does not announce dropdown menus, lists and content of that elements. see column c. this file is using on system windows 7 32-bit nvda next branch and office 2010.

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Attachment nvdalogandexamplefile.zip added by gregjozk_ on 2013-07-24 13:25
Description:
In the zip file is nvda log and xlsm file where is dropdown.

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Attachment dropdown.xls added by jteh on 2013-08-19 05:13
Description:
Simpler test case. Choices are in a1:a4, drop-down is in b1.

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Comment 1 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-08-21 10:28
In [f303b93]:

Initial support for dropdown lists in MS Excel. Should support 2003 through 2010, relying on displayModel. Re #3382

Currently looks for white text for selected item. should of course change this to use proper system selection color.

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Comment 2 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-08-22 01:38
In [a5b5175]:

Excel dropdowns: now uses the proper system highlight colors to detect selection. Also include some code that should have been committed before. Re #3382.

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Comment 3 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-08-23 12:44
In [951c417]:

Excel dropdowns: now uses the proper system highlight colors to detect selection. Also include some code that should have been committed before. Re #3382.

Note this support covers Excel 2003 2007 and 2010, but not 2013 sadly.

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Comment 4 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-08-23 12:44
In [02d8431]:

Merge branch 't3382' (Support Excel 2003-2010 dropdown lists) into next. Incubates #3382

Changes:
Added labels: incubating

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Comment 5 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-08-23 12:47
In [5e51f25]:

Merge branch 't3382' into next. Incubates #3382

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Comment 6 by jteh on 2013-08-28 03:23
Changes:
Milestone changed from None to next

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Comment 7 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-09-12 01:45
In [e6409e6]:

Merge branch 't3382'. Fixes #3382

Changes:
Removed labels: incubating
State: closed

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Comment 8 by mdcurran on 2013-09-12 01:46
Changes:
Milestone changed from next to 2013.3

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Comment 9 by gregjozk_ on 2013-10-16 06:10
I see, that in the fresh edition of next branch (see attached zip file), dropdown does not work again.

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Comment 10 by gregjozk_ on 2013-10-16 06:13
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State: reopened

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Attachment 1310 JG - Časovnica.zip added by gregjozk_ on 2013-10-16 06:16
Description:
log + file when I observed a problem.

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Comment 11 by mdcurran (in reply to comment 9) on 2013-10-17 05:24
Replying to gregjozk_:
I am able to open and navigate the dropdown on c19 in your example. Did this ever work for you? What version of MS Excel are you running?
This feature is also now in master. Do you have any success trying this with master?

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Comment 12 by gregjozk_ on 2013-10-17 05:57
I'm using excel version 2010 (32-bit) on os windows 7 sp1. Problem is, because sometimes dropdown works, but often NVDA does not recognise, that in c (or whatever column there is dropdown and then it does not open dropdown options.

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Comment 13 by mdcurran on 2013-10-18 01:31
For anyone who can't seem to get dropdowns to work in Excel when pressing alt+downArrow, please test this try build:
http://community.nvda-project.org/try/excelDropdownTimeout/nvda_snapshot_try-excelDropdownTimeout-9641,ef5ec7c.exe

Let me know if this works better.
If it still does not work for you, please provide a log set to input/output. A part from some improvements to detection of the Dropdown window, there is also extra logging to show where it fails.

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Comment 14 by gregjozk_ on 2013-10-18 06:48
it seems, that this solution works fine. thanks. the excel dropdown (yours yesterday submition) works well and main next branch makes trouble.

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Comment 15 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-10-18 06:55
In [f3e21f1]:

Merge branch 'excelDropdownTimeout' into next. Incubates #3382

Changes:
Added labels: incubating

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Comment 16 by Michael Curran <mick@... on 2013-10-31 23:38
In [967990b]:

Merge branch 'excelDropdownTimeout'. Fixes #3382.

Changes:
Removed labels: incubating
State: closed