[jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for custom script for it?
- From: "Ken Burgess" <kenburg@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:57:05 -0400
I consulted builtin.jsd and got my answers.
Thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Burgess" <kenburg@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 11:28 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for custom
script for it?
> When I looked at GetProgressBar it wanted the following parameters:
>
> Parameter 1
> the prompt of the Progress Bar.
>
> Parameter 2
> the value of the progress bar as a percentage.
>
> So, what do you put in for parameter 1? I guess I'm asking, what is a
> prompt?
>
> I guess parameter 2 is just an integer?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 10:56 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for
> custom
> script for it?
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> Ah. hmmm.
>> Thanks Jim for this info re the GetProgressBar function.
>>
>> When time permits I will experiment further with this, and see if I can
>> make
>> it sing and dance at all, re this ByRef feature of which you speak.
>> which
>> I
>> must confess I'm at present only very vaguely cognisent with.
>>
>> Thanks for the tip.
>> From: "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:02 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for
>> custom
>> script for it?
>>
>>
>>> This function, GetProgressBarInfo, is a bit obsscure as presented by
>>> the
>>> control+i wizard in the Script manager.
>>> The two parameters, as shwn in file builtin.jsd, are byref strings,
>>> which
>>> means you provide two strings, and it pokes information into them for
>>> you.
>>>
>>> You don't get to give it any starting point information. It apparently
>>> assumes the current RealWindow, as dictated by what has focus at the
>>> moment.
>>>
>>> When I ran this function in Sound Forge 10, while a long operation was
>>> under
>>> way, it returned nothing at all.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Steve Matzura" <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 11:15 AM
>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for
>>> custom
>>> script for it?
>>>
>>>
>>> There already is one. See GetProgressBarInfo.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 7 May 2012 12:49:29 +1000, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>Although perhaps slightly off-topic, wondering if anyone new of any
>>>>builtin
>>>>command already in jaws, to simply read/announce the progress bar, if it
>>>>exists, in a given window.
>>>>instead of having to listen all the way through,
>>>>to what seems to me, to be the extremely poor/long neglected and overdue
>>>>for tightening up,
>>>>current rendering of the Read Box, jawskey+B script?
>>>>BTW does anyone else think this Jaws+B
>>>>script is just incredibly ppoor? i.e. how many times it reads
>>>>information,
>>>>and how although it's supposed to read in Tab order, or some such thing,
>>>>it
>>>>just seems to read information most non-intuitively to me?
>>>>anywayz back to progress bars,
>>>>The progress bar info does get spoken if you are prepared to wade
>>>>through
>>>>the announcement of the Read Box script,
>>>>but I just find it hard to believe there wouldn't be a dedicated
>>>>keystroke
>>>>to announce just this info to end user.
>>>>
>>>>And, if not, would any kind soul be prepared to provide some example
>>>>code
>>>>of how I might go about creating a reliable script to return this info?
>>>>
>>>>And, whilst on this trip, another piece of reeeally useful
>>>>info I'd very much like to be able to far more readily retrieve, is what
>>>>list Item I'm currently focused on, in a standard listbox?
>>>>At present, the only way I know how to hear this, is to hit
>>>>ReadCurrentLine, and wait through the whole shpeel this returns, to hear
>>>>at
>>>>the very end, this information, x of y.
>>>>
>>>>These two little things have been of some frustration to me for quite
>>>>some
>>>>years.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks much for any tips/feedback on these.
>>>>
>>>>Geoff c.
>>
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