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Explorer: do not announce 'unknown' when opening quick link menu and selecting items from it (Windows+X)#8138

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Fixes #8137

Summary of the issue:

Do not announce "unknown" when opening quick link menu and selecting items in there (Windows+X).

Description of how this pull request fixes the issue:

Windows with the class name of LauncherTipWnd and ApplicationManager_DesktopShellWindow fires focus events, causing NVDA to announce 'unknown' when opening quick link menu (Windows+X) and selecting an item from this menu. Suppress this if possible.

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Tested on version 1803 and earlier builds.

Known issues with pull request:

None

Change log entry:

Bug fixes: On Windows 8 and later, NVDA will no longer announce "unknown" when opening quick link menu )Windows+X) and selecting items from this menu. (#8137)

…dows+X). Re nvaccess#8137.

Windows with the class name of LauncherTipWnd and ApplicationManager_DesktopShellWindow fires focus events, causing NVDA to announce 'unknown' when opening quick link menu (Windows+X) and selecting an item from this menu. Suppress this if possible.
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if wClass == "ForegroundStaging":
if wClass in ("ForegroundStaging", "LauncherTipWnd", "ApplicationManager_DesktopShellWindow"):
# #5116: The Windows 10 Task View fires foreground/focus on this weird invisible window before and after it appears.

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"This weird invisible window" needs clarification now. Please change this line to mention ForegroundStaging",

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michaelDCurran added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 6, 2018
@michaelDCurran michaelDCurran merged commit 2977f5f into nvaccess:master Apr 20, 2018
@nvaccessAuto nvaccessAuto added this to the 2018.2 milestone Apr 20, 2018
@josephsl josephsl deleted the i8137explorerUnknownFocus branch September 16, 2019 02:04
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Windows 10: NVDA announces "unknown" when opening and closing quick link menu (Windows+X)

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