[jawsscripts] Re: How to read bottom line of string only?
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 16:03:18 +1000
Thanks a lot Jackie for this eh. Yes checking this out in fsdn indicated
the -1 retreaving the last segment from the right. that's a jolly handy
little edition eh.
Thanks again.
Geoff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:16 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How to read bottom line of string only?
> Geoff:
>
> StringSsegment may well do what you're looking for. The key is
> determining what delimits these text lines. If it is, as u suggest, a
> newline character, then something like the following should work:
> String Function RetrieveCall()
> var
> string S-caller,
> String S-text
>
> let S-text = GetWindowText(GetCurrentWindow(), 0)
> let S_caller = stringSegment(S-text, "\n", -1) ;retrieves last segment
>
> Of course the GetCurrentWindow() was just a W A G, but the
> StringSegment portion is accurate.
>
> On 5/18/10, Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Windows controls generally need a \r\n pair. (certainly the edit and
>> rich text box controls do).
>>
>> StringSegment() looks like it could do what you're after (basically
>> the last line of a multi-line string, right?).
>>
>> On 5/18/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> HI Scripters. I wish to work out, from a bunch of text in a frame, how
>>> I
>>> can string monipulate such that I can read only the bottom line of a
>>> stack,
>>> which in this case will be the last call put on Hold, and which the
>>> keyboard
>>> focus will thus operate on when HoldRetreave is pressed from within this
>>> telephony interface application I'm scripting for? I know it must
>>> probly
>>> have something to do with grabbing the whole MultiLine string of the
>>> text
>>> in the frame, and somehow getting jaws to search from the right hand end
>>> of
>>> the string, backwards along the bottom line, until it reached a
>>> newLine/Carriage return character, then chopping everything from their
>>> to
>>> the left, returning the remainder botttom line? but, I'm just a bit
>>> fogged
>>> as to how to exactly code this type of funcionality? Could anyone steer
>>> me
>>> on the right path here? and, is it a "\r" or "\n
>>> that I'd be looking for here? and is it double backslash that you have
>>> to
>>> enclose in quotes when looking for one of these? ive just forgotten
>>> somehow.
>>> thanks so much for any pointers/info.
>>>
>>> geoff
>>>
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