[jawsscripts] Re: Hello and Scripting Problem

Globals are great, as long as you don't forget they are there and that they have values that stay valid until you clear them! 

Thanks,
Dennis Brown
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Dietz" <James.Dietz@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:06 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Hello and Scripting Problem


Hey,

Thanks a lot.  The script now works, and it's all thanks to global
variables.  (I'm in my college's CS program which has spent a lot of
time convincing me that global variables are evil, but jaws scripting
isn't very complex anyway).

James

----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Garaventa <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, January 18, 2008 12:22 pm
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Hello and Scripting Problem
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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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