[jawsscripts] Re: DOM assignments in JAWS Scripts

Thanks for confirming my findings and stating it in proper terminology.  I 
am glad this works!  It just seemed somewhat inefficient requiring all of 
thee intermediate objects, especially on large web pages.  It is certainly 
not a problem on the small web pages that I am working on, since it was 
designed for mobile devices.  Perhaps with memory so cheap anymore, this 
would never be an issue.

Don Marang


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From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:47 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: DOM assignments in JAWS Scripts


> JAWS can assign to object properties, but only one level deep, and not
> when you have to index something on the left side of the equal sign.
> So for a made-up example, you can not say, let o.prop(3).value = 5.
> You can do this though:
>
> let o1 = o.prop(3)
> let o1.value = 5
>
> As to your other question, I'm not fully clear on this, but I think
> oDoc.id1 is the same as oDoc.getElementByID("id1"), and I think there
> are other shortcuts like that.  I may not be fully right about this.
>
> Hth.
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:50:51PM -0400, Donald Marang wrote:
> Good Evening,
> I have been playing around with manipulating Internet Explorer DOM objects 
> in a JAWS script.  I have noticed that JAWS seems to be able to handle 
> only one level at a time.  Therefore, I accomplished what I wanted with a 
> series of assignments.  I have never programmed DOM objects in an object 
> oriented language,  or any other language for that matter.  Is this 
> normal?  Am I doing something wrong?  An example is included below of a 
> online DVR Scheduler search page.
>
> ; Empty Search page has:
> ; testInput search field, "Title & Description" (byTitle) and "Channel" 
> (byChannel ) buttons
> let oDoc = ieGetCurrentDocument ()
> Let sURL = oDoc.url ; Creates the URL of the current page
>
> ; JAWS can not seem to assign directly like:
> ; Let oDoc.forms(0).testInput.value = sProgram
>
> Let oForm = oDoc.forms(0) ; the only form with an edit field and two 
> buttons
> Let oButton = oDoc.buttons(0) ; first button, "byTitle"
> Let oEditField = oForm.testInput
> ; Is this the same as:
> ; Let oEditField = oForm("testInput")
> Let oEditField.value = sProgram
>
> Don Marang
>
>
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