[jawsscripts] Re: JAWS function for generating random numbers?
- From: "Travis Roth" <travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:13:36 -0600
Depending on how many random numbers you need, say only a handful throughout
a script set's performance you could use JAWS' various window handle
functions such as GetCurrentWindow() to get numbers which Windows seem to
more or less generate randomly.
Then use a modulus to get the range you want e.g., number % 11.
If you need many though, then Martin's idea seems like the best bet to me.
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Slack
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 4:14 PM
To: JAWSScripts
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: JAWS function for generating random numbers?
Saylien,
A couple of years ago I wrote to this list describing a way of accessing
certain dot net classes from Jaws scripts. It is possible to access the
System.Random class in this way, although with limitations. I give a script
below in which repeated calls to that classes' Next () method would give a
set of pseudo random positive integers, as long as you have a dot net
framework installed on your machine. Unfortunately, the returned range is
from 0 to MaxInt32, or 0 to 2147483647, rather than the the range of 1 to 10
which you want. It happens that the Next () method can take an integer
parameter which limits the maximum value returned, but Jaws scripts cannot
pass an integer parameter to any object (corrections to this claim would be
welcome). As a hack, I divide the returned value by approx one tenth of
MaxInt32. This is not a very accurate way of limiting the returned range,
but seems on testing to give a range of 0 to 10. Adding 1 to the returned
value at this stage would give a range of 1 to 11, but you might use a while
loop to throw away any values higher than 10 and keep calling the method
until a number in the desired range is returned.
hth
Martin
Script test ()
Var object oRand, object oNull, int r
let oRand = CreateObject ("System.Random") let r = (oRand.Next () /
214748365)
SayInteger (r)
oRand = oNull
EndScript
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From: "Saylien Brown" <saybro@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 7:33 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] JAWS function for generating random numbers?
> Hi,
>
> I'm using JAWS 12 under Windows 7 home premium.
>
> Is there any function in the Script Manager that will tell JAWS to
> generate a random number (Between 1 and 10) then store it in a variable?
>
> If not, can someone give me an example script I can use to do the above?
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