[jawsscripts] Re: British keyboards backslash

I'll probably have to leave you to do the bulk of that one, and it
does sound rather involved.  I can offer a possibility or two though:

strKeyName likes to include things like "RightShift" instead of
just "Shift."  You can use StringReplaceSubstrings to clean it up
before making your comparisons.  You could also write a function
that compares two keystrokes for identicalness regardless of the
order of modifier keys in each, but I recommend testing the isSameKey
function, because it just might do that for you.  I think you have to
get rid of "right," "left," etc. first though.

My other idea is strange and very well may not apply, but here goes...

You mentioned a set of user keystrokes.  That sounds like a sequence,
which you want to compare against a list.  I may be wrong about your
intentions there, but if you are in fact treating the user list as a
sequence, you can use a trick with stringSegment to pre-check the list
and reduce CPU time for matches that would fail in a more rigorous
test:  stringSegment actually allows a multi-character delimiter
string, and if you pass one, you get all segments divided in the
original string by any of the delimiters.  For example,
stringSegment("a+b|c+d", "|+", 3) should return "c," because
stringSegment is allowing both "|" and "+" to be delimiters.  Looping
through the user keystroke string with the same pair of delimiters
will give you things like "ctrl," "shift," "a," "alt," "d," etc.  If
your user keystroke string is a sequence, finding any such segment
that is not in the comparison list would mean an overall match
failure.

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:54:18PM -0700, David Pinto wrote:
Doug,

Valid point. However, for my purposes, using strKeyName is more cumbersome. 
I have a delimited list of desired keypresses, and then compare this list 
with the user's key presses, which are also stored in a delimited list. I 
then need to compare the 2 lists. For the particular set of evaluations that 
I'm executing, comparing the 2 lists is much easier when dealing with 
numerical constants. For the painful details, I can write you off list if 
you like.
David Pinto
YesAccessible


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: British keyboards backslash


> Is there any reason you can't use the strKeyName parameter to the
> KeyPressedEvent instead of using the key codes?
>
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 09:27:24AM -0700, David Pinto wrote:
> I need to get the JAWS keycodes for Left SHIFT + backslash, and right 
> shift
> + backslash. OF course, in the KeyPressedEvent, The keycode is in the
> variable n Key. But I do not have a British keyboard, with has the 
> backslash
> key in a different location than the American keyboard.
>
> I'm localizing a set of scripts for the British Isles and need to
> distinguish between these key combinations. One last twist is that when
> using the SHIFT key, the JAWS keycodes changed starting from JAWS 8, So I
> need the JAWS 6 or 7  keycodes for Left/Right Shift, Plus Backslash. And 
> the
> JAWS 8 or 9 key codes for Left/Right Shift Plus Backslash. Any help would 
> be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> David Pinto
>
> YesAccessible
>
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