[jawsscripts] Re: Hello and Scripting Problem

If you are always switching to the image window from the text window, just write a statement before the control+tab script activates, which will save the current window handle to a global variable. You will just need to get the class for the current window, which would be the text window, to ensure that this is the right window when running. 

For instance,

globals
handle h_text_window

; Then add the following code to the beginning of the control+tab script...

if GetWindowClass (GetFocus ()) == "TextWindowClassName" then

let h_text_window = GetFocus ()

endif
; Then when you want to switch back to the text window from the image window, you could use the following code within the top of the control+tab script... 

if GetWindowClass (GetFocus ()) == "ImageWindowClassName" then

SetFocus(h_text_window)
Return
endif

Hope this helps,

Bryan
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Dietz" <James.Dietz@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:04 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Hello and Scripting Problem



Hey,

Glad to be on the list (I think -- got an automated "subscribed"
message anyway); I haven't seriously tried Jaws scripting in years and
forgot how neat it was.  I'm trying to step up my scripting game, which
is why I joined this list etc etc.

Anyway to business:
I'm writing a very simple script for a free OCR program called TopOCR
(topocr.com) which is a pretty good program with an annoying interface;
it seems to have two separate windows (one for the scanned image and
one for the recognized text) which are not children of one main
window.  It's possible to switch between them using the utility
functions (homerow+tab and left click) and unrestricted Jaws Find but
I'm writing a script to do that at the press of a key (ctrl+tab).  I've
figured out how to switch from the text window to the image window
(just SetFocus(GetNextWindow(GetForegroundWindow()))) but not how to
switch back to the text window to read the OCRed results/save to word
etc.  Using NVDA's incredibly useful object navigation feature (beats
the jaws utility functions in intuitiveness) I discovered that I should
be able to switch to it by getting the prior window of the parent of
the focus but nothing happens.  My original plan was to FindWindow
starting at the desktop
for the window with the text window's class, but a) there doesn't seem
to be an equivalent to the windows API's GetDesktopWindow and b) 0 for
the handle parameter just gives me the app top level window which
doesn't seem to work in this app (two separate windows with the desktop
as their parent like I said).  Hopefully one of you will have a better
idea of what might work - I'm pretty new to scripting in general
afterall.  Of course if you need more info or if I wasn't clear enough
please let me know.

Thanks a lot,
James
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