Improve Magnifier error messages#19475
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@Boumtchack feel free to comment here. |
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Test failure is unrelated. |
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I've added more gestures regarding to padding so I guess it'll add up to what you wanted to change. I think I'll adapt my code to what you are doing here if it's validated |
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Thanks @CyrilleB79 these changes look good to me
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Summary of the issue:
When trying to execute Magnifier commands while Magnifier is not active, there is no error message and an error is logged because pgettext context argument has been put at a wrong position.
Description of user facing changes:
Executing Magnifier commands when Magnifier is not active now report a message as expected.
The reported messages have been improved to be more similar to other NVDA messages when an action cannot be performed.
Description of developer facing changes:
N/A
Description of development approach:
Fix pgettext call
Reworded error messages
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Summary of the issue:
When trying to execute Magnifier commands while Magnifier is not active, there is no error message and an error is logged because
pgettextcontext argument has been put at a wrong position.Description of user facing changes:
Description of developer facing changes:
N/A
Description of development approach:
pgettextcallTesting strategy:
Manuel tests of all Magnifier commands.
The full screen scheck has not been tested since for now, no other mode is available.
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