Comment 1 by mdcurran on 2012-12-29 06:28
In theory the current code is wrong as it should not override unavailable. However, due to my fix for #2904, I'm struggling to think of a way presentationType on a contentGenericClient would ever be hit as now if the window is unavailable or invisible itself, simple object nav won't go in it to get to the ccontentGenericClient anyway. Unless perhaps there's another usage of presentationType I'm forgetting hear...

Comment 2 by jteh on 2012-12-29 06:36
The only thing I can think of is if accNavigate lands there, but I guess our correctAPIForRelation stuff should push us to the window anyway.

Your thoughts on the second point (layout instead of content in some cases)?

Comment 3 by mdcurran on 2012-12-29 06:41
Again, not too sure how much difference it would make. ContentGenericClient is only used if childCount is 0, therefore there'd be nothing for simple nav to jump down to inside.

Comment 4 by jteh on 2012-12-29 06:47
Err, but aren't layout objects skipped when going next/previous? I mean even when they aren't unavailable or invisible.

Right now, in Sonar, you get a whole lot of "unknown, unknown, unknown" when going previous from the Track pane.

Comment 5 by mdcurran on 2012-12-29 06:51
True. I guess it would be okay to do this, though things may appear and disappear randomly due to perhaps no redraw or display content. I'm not too bothered though, if it significantly helps... and I guess people can turn off simple review to get to them again if needed.

Comment 6 by jteh on 2012-12-29 06:58
Alternatively, if you don't believe this is suitable, I can just do it for Sonar. Maybe we should do that for now and revisit this bug later if we see it a lot elsewhere? Feel free to wontfix for now on those grounds.

Comment 7 by nvdakor on 2013-11-02 07:44
Hi guys,
Facing the same problem for Goldwave as well - I can verify that at least Goldwave's main window (without any track opened) does return contentGenericClient as object type, which is proving to be quite a challenging when writing appModule for Goldwave (although you cannot navigate to child objects, you can still view the contents of the window that NVDA should have caught when navigating via object navigation if you use screen review). Thanks.

We decided to expose ContentGenericClient as layout if there is no value and it isn't focused.

@jcsteh, @michaelDCurran could you please give a short update on this? Thank you.

The decision made concerning the implementation of this issue is explained in #2903 (comment). Having said that, I no longer personally care about this and I was the one driving it, so I'm going to close this. It can always be reopened should someone care in future.