[jawsscripts] Re: JAWS ini functions
- From: "Sean Farrow" <sean.farrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:30:26 +0100
Paul/Doug:
Intersting. I don't use cygwin, but I also saw the issueswith caching you speak
of Paul.
I ended up writing my own ini* functions that didn't use the win32 api.
If anybody wants them, let me know, I'll send them privately.
Cheers
Sean.
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: JAWS ini functions
Interesting. My experience is different: Early incarnations of
IniReadSectionKeys did not work properly, but I have not seen problems
with any ini reading commands since. There are always the issues with
writing and reading in the same script because of caching and such,
but I don't have a clear handle on what problems remain there.
Finally, I have an unproven but strong suspicion that using Cygwin to
create ini files can cause weird problems, and that this is because
Cygwin leaves a file permission flag unset that Windows always sets.
The symptom is that JAWS won't even see the file with some commands
but will with others. This may even be at the Windows API level and
not to do with JAWS at all. I've seen JAWS completely replace a .ini
and a .jcf file without realizing it was there. Again though, I don't
think this ever happens if Cygwin is not involved. I pretty much live
in Cygwin, but most JAWS scripters probably don't. :) If you do use
Cygwin, I advise `chmod +x' on all files you pass off to JAWS.
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:00:39PM +1000, Paul Magill wrote:
Hi Sean,
Until Jaws 6, I found they all worked perfectly, brilliantly well actually,
but from version 6 I had to rewrite routines that used more than just a few
INI functions in quick succession, such as in a while loop.
I still use the INI functions where only a few, 2 or 3, are needed in quick
succession.
The problem was that they were no longer reliable, if more than a few were
used immediately after each other.
Sometimes 20 or 30 INI reads in quick succession would work correctly, &
sometimes not.
I replaced multiple INI write or INI read with JAMAL's object method of
writing or reading entire text files.
Not only did I regain 100% reliability, but it turned out to be faster to
organise all the information I was going to write in multiple INI writes
into one string, & do a single write to a text file using Jamal's text file
writing method, but it was faster.
* I would be most interested in how you wrote your own, if you dont mind
sharing...
Regards,
Paul from Aust
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Farrow" <sean.farrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi All:
I was recently using the JAWS ini functions to read and write to an ini
file.
I found the iniread* functions and iniFlush* functions to be problematic
and ended up writing my own.
I carn't remember though whether the iniread* functions cause any
issues. Has anyone else had issues with these functions not working.
Any advice appreciated.
Sean.
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