[jawsscripts] Re: A little thankyou.
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:44:08 -0400
Cheers to you for making their life easier!
Don Marang
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From: "Mike" <mike_sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:29 AM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] A little thankyou.
> All,
>
> I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who contributes to this list and
> for
> helping me with my scripting enquiries.
> I am not visually impaired myself but I work in I.T. and support almost
> 150
> visually impaired users, 40 of which are using JAWS.
> I have been scripting for this little community for a while now as the
> systems they use are quite archaic and feedback with JAWS is at time
> pretty
> poor. All the scripting I do for them enhances their experience at work
> and
> helps them to be more productive.
>
> So once again, cheers!
>
> Mike.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Martin Slack" <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:38 PM
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Help for writing scripts
>
>> JR,
>>
>> Can you see what the script is doing? How it saves all the text from
>> the
>> full window area, then treats it as a single string, delimited by
>> carriage
>> returns. Using some of FS's built in functions, the part of the string
>> after the last carriage return is extracted, and this is the last line
>> from
>> the screen. If your application has a status bar, this text will be what
>> is
>> displayed on the status bar, since the status bar is positioned at the
>> bottom of the screen. We can add to the script, treating the last line
>> of
>> text itself as a string delimited by space characters, and using exactly
>> the
>> same technique, extract any of the words we want to be spoken. What you
>> will need to do is tell us which words from the status bar you want
>> spoken:
>> is it the third and fourth words? Is it the first and fifteenth words?
>> Only you can say.
>>
>> Over to you.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <benedicjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 8:14 AM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Help for writing scripts
>>
>>
>>> Hi. I see the saybottomline script, but there's no instructions how to
>>> customize it for my needs. Is there any doccumentation for it? Such as
>>> how
>>> to use and what are the parameters needed? I also want to know how can
>>> turn it in an automatic function?
>>> Sorry to be a pain, but please have patients for me. Thanks. I really
>>> apriciate your help.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Martin Slack" <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:36:42 -0000
>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Help for writing scripts
>>>
>>>> First things first:
>>>>
>>>> You need to open Script Manager, which you do with JAWSKey + 0
>>>> (that's
>>>> 0
>>>> on the main keyboard, not the NumPad). When Script Manager opens, hit
>>>> control + f4 to close the window holding the current application's
>>>> scripts,
>>>> and open default.jss. If you have done this before, then control + o
>>>> will
>>>> bring up a dialog allowing you to do it again. If not, you will need
>>>> to
>>>> Open Shared File from the File menu at the top of the screen, which
>>>> gives
>>>> a
>>>> similar dialog.
>>>>
>>>> When default.jss is open, hit control + l which opens a dialog
>>>> listing
>>>> all
>>>> available scripts. Hit the S key then tab into the list and focus will
>>>> be
>>>> on the first script whose name begins with the letter S. Arrow down a
>>>> few
>>>> times and you should hear the script you want announced. Tab to the OK
>>>> button or just hit enter and focus will jump to the first line of that
>>>> script. Read the script and see if it makes any sense.
>>>>
>>>> Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: <benedicjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:11 AM
>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Help for writing scripts
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >I can't see the SayBottomlinewindow. Can you instruct me how to do
>>>> >this?
>>>> >Yes the statusbar read command gives me too much info. And I want also
>>>> >the
>>>> >function to read that automatically if new text displayed. can you
>>>> >give
>>>> >how
>>>> >to do the automatically reading of wanted information or wanted area
>>>> >of
>>>> >the
>>>> >screen?
>>>> >
>>>> > ----- Original Message -----
>>>> > From: "Martin Slack" <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> > To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:53:28 -0000
>>>> > Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Help for writing scripts
>>>> >
>>>> >> Hi JR,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Did you get anywhere with this problem? I don't know the
>>>> >> application
>>>> >> you
>>>> >> are working with, but the JAWS hotkey JAWSKey + PageDown will read
>>>> >> out
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> last line on the screen, and if a status bar is present, that will
>>>> >> be
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> line read. Does that give too much information? If so, then the
>>>> >> script
>>>> >> SayBottomLineOfWindow(), which is in default.jss and is called by
>>>> >> that
>>>> >> hotkey, can probably be modified to do what you want. Have a look
>>>> >> and
>>>> >> see
>>>> >> what you think.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> hth
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Martin
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> >> From: <benedicjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:16 AM
>>>> >> Subject: [jawsscripts] Help for writing scripts
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> > Hi. Anyone here know PopPeeper? I try to make an automatic read
>>>> >> > function
>>>> >> > for some items in the status bar through using a frame. But I
>>>> >> > found
>>>> >> > out
>>>> >> > that it's not stable so that's why I want to make scripts with
>>>> >> > same
>>>> >> > function. I try to study but still no idea how that works. Can you
>>>> >> > please
>>>> >> > help me to write this functions? Or will you write some for me?
>>>> >> > Please,
>>>> >> > it would be a great help. Thanks...
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > JR
>>>> >> > __________
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