[jawsscripts] Re: Control ID and Window Handle the same?
- From: "Bob Kennedy" <intheshop@xxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:49:44 -0500
How would we get the tools you were talking about?
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From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:21 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Control ID and Window Handle the same?
> yep steve, my understanding is this is very common.
>
> was talking to the snowman yesterday about this, and he's got tools in his
> JLS utilities to test a window and let you know if it's gunna have
> non-unique control ID's, making them obviously useless for window
> identification.
>
> just piping up to say your experience is normative, but of course can't
> give
> you the good dirt on what to do to get around it. except by seeking to
> next
> try other methods for grabbing the unique information desired. hierarchy I
> believe, is one of them.
> Jim's Jls utilities I discovered yesterday as he demonstrated them to me,
> also have a neat feature where you put your focus in one window, your jaws
> cursor in another, then hit a hotkey and it will seek to generate the code
> for you, to traverse the window hierarchy to get from one to the other
> etc.
> which may be of use to you as well.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Matzura" <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "jawsscripts" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 10:51 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Control ID and Window Handle the same?
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>
>> Has anyone ever encountered the following?
>>
>> I have a program that does not assign non-varying control ID's to its
>> controls and other windows. In fact, what it does do is to assign the
>> window handle, whatever it is, as the control ID for that window. It
>> also has assigned the same name for every single control in the
>> program. This make scripting most impossible from everything I've
>> learned about how to make decisions based on what control the
>> application cursor is on, since the information is not something to be
>> counted on because it always changes. ANyone ever find this?
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