[jawsscripts] Re: GUI Objects with same control ID
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:49:35 -0500
What I have done in several cases is use the position of the windows within
the application's window hierarchy. For instance, I may check the Control
ID and also make sure it is the first control (window) in the dialog. Most
of the time, all controls within a dialog are at the same x level.
Don Marang
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From: "Chris Kung" <Chris.Kung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:46 PM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: GUI Objects with same control ID
> Thanks for you input Soronel
> Just to complicate matters the objects are of the same class (Edit) aswell
> as having the same control ID. They perform different functions and so
> require JAWS to say something different when focused on them. The only
> unique identifier is the handle but that changes every time you load up a
> new instance of the window.
>
> Out of interest does JAWS call some Window API to retrieve information
> about the current application? I am quite interested as to how it all
> works.
>
> Thanks
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> If the windows are at least of different types you could do something
> like the following:
>
> Const
> SHARED_ID = 1234,
> INTERNAL_ID1 = 2000,
> INTERNAL_ID2 = 20001
>
> int Function GetInternalId(Handle hWnd)
> Var
> string strClass,
> int nID
>
> Let nID = GetControlID(hWnd)
> Let strClass = GetWindowsClass(hWnd)
>
> If nID == SHARED_ID1 Then
> If strClass == "SysTreeView32" Then
> return INTERNAL_ID1
> Elif strClass ="SysListView32" Then
> return INTERNAL_ID2
> EndIf
> EndIf
>
> ; return 0
> EndFunction
>
> Note that I haven't tried entering this in the script editor so there
> may be errors, it's only meant to illustrate the idea of using
> whatever unique information is available to assign an easier value for
> matching purposes. After writing the above function you could do
> something like the following:
>
> void Function SomeEventHandler(Handle hWnd)
> var
> int nID
> ...
>
> Let nID = GetInternalID(hWnd)
> If nID == SHARED_ID1 Then
> ...
> ElIf nID == SHARED_ID2 Then
> ...
> EndIf
> EndFunction
>
>
> Also, if the class/ID pair is unique within a context you can use
> FindWindowWithClassAndId to get a handle to it.
>
> On 3/1/10, Chris Kung <Chris.Kung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone
>> I work for a company that provides software to transport divisions.
>>
>> I've been trying to get my head round JAWS scripting to get our
>> application to up to scratch but I've encountered some problems.
>>
>> The main issue is that we have certain objects with the same control ID,
>> thus when it comes to scripting its difficult to distinguish between the
>> two objects.
>>
>> One idea was get the screen position of the object and unique identify
> it
>> that way but I haven't got a clue on how to do this.
>>
>> Has anyone here experienced similar problems?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> Christopher Kung
>> Junior Technical Implementation Specialist
>> TrapezeGroup (UK) Limited
>> www.trapezegroup.co.uk
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
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