[jawsscripts] Re: How to read bottom line of string only?
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 08:10:35 -0700
FSDN is a scripter's best friend. (sometimes, at least when the
documentation is instructive) lol. Actually it's a very handy
reference tool.
On 5/18/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
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> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:16 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How to read bottom line of string only?
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>
>> 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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