[jawsscripts] Re: Miranda IM reading chat and announcing contact status changes
- From: "dave grossoehme" <davegross1@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:17:22 -0600
It sounds like you have a buffer holding the code. When this buffer fills
up then you have to restore the buffer. That would be a guess without more
information on this program.
Your Friend Dave
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From: "Tony Hernandez" <tonyhspeaks@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 9:17 AM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] Miranda IM reading chat and announcing contact status
changes
> Hi all.
>
>
> Problem 1: The status changes.
>
>
>
> Miranda has a number of plugins that display status changes in different
> ways. However, I have yet to find a single one that creates a true window
> that has a true type, true name, true etc. I've tried numerous plugins
> that
> pop up different windows and then tried to get JAWS to read the text in
> those windows in different ways too numerous to name in full.
> GetTextInWindow, GetWindowText, GetWindowName, just to name a few. Jaws
> either doesn't see the text because it is transparent or something or
> doesn't even acknowledge that there is text there even when acknowledging
> that a window has been created and even being able to get the owning app
> name, which is usually the DLL that makes up the plugin. Now ideally
> there
> would be a status notify plugin that actually makes a true help balloon,
> which jaws actually reads automatically, instead of someone making a
> plugin
> that looks and acts like a help balloon but really isn't one and then
> saying
> it's a balloon. Such a plugin would instantly solve the problem. My
> current solution works perfectly if and only if Miranda is the focused
> application.
>
>
>
> I'm using the Toltip notify plugin to notify me of status changes. I have
> the following code in an int function called CheckForMirandaTooltip, which
> takes a single parameter that represents the handle of the window that
> pops
> up. I call it h.
>
>
>
> Int Function CheckforMirandaTooltip (handle h)
>
> var
>
> string s
>
> If GetScreenEcho () > Echo_None then
>
> if GetOwningAppName (h) == wo_notify then
>
> ;this is the Tooltip Notify Plugin DLL .
>
> let s = GetWindowText (h, false)
>
> if s then
>
> SayUsingVoice (VCTX_Message, s, OT_User_Requested_Information)
>
> return true
>
> EndIf
>
> EndIf
>
> EndIf
>
> return false
>
> EndFunction
>
>
>
> This code works perfectly if the Miranda window is the one with focus,
> either the main window or an IM window. I put the following statement in
> the default script file:
>
>
>
> Use "MirandaHelper.jsb"
>
> Then I called the above function in the WindowCreatedEvent in the default
> scripts. I have been able to confirm that a window is indeed created when
> someone changes their status in my Miranda contacts. As I said, the
> script
> works flawlessly if and only if the Miranda application has the focus,
> either in the form of an IM window or in the main window, but it doesn't
> work at all when Miranda is not the focused application. It appears that
> no
> text appears to JAWS. My sighted son tells me that a window pops up with
> text, but even setting jaws to read all text doesn't read that text. I've
> gotten JAWS to tell me the type of that window that pops up, but it isn't
> a
> tooltip. The window type is 0. Very frustrating. The author of the
> plugin
> says it's a tooltip and probably even thinks it's a tooltip, but JAWS
> disagrees. If I knew how to write a Miranda plugin, I would write one
> that
> would pop up an actual help balloon and then distribute that, but I don't.
> It seems that no one who has written Miranda plugins understands the
> importance of using standard window types or they don't have the ability
> to
> use them. I can't even read the source code of the plugin; the language
> is
> too unfamiliar to me.
>
>
>
> I've tried adding a string parameter to this function and then calling it
> in
> the SayNonHighlightedText function instead of WindowCreatedEvent, but no
> joy. It works flawlessly if and only if Miranda is the application with
> focus.
>
>
>
> Problem 2: The chat reading
>
> I have a script that reads the incoming messages very well using the Homer
> Editor interface. After a while that script doesn't read the latest
> messages anymore. It seems to get to appoint where it appears to have
> reached a limit and then just reads the same bit of text over and over and
> won't read past that. The only way to get it reading properly again is to
> close out of the message window and start a new one. The code for
> processing the incoming chat messages follows:
>
>
>
> Void Function ProcessNewMessages ()
>
> if giReadChat == on
>
> && GetScreenEcho () > Echo_None then
>
> Say (GetMessageThread (-1), OT_User_Requested_Information)
>
> endIf
>
> EndFunction
>
>
>
> Now the GetMessageThread code
>
>
>
> String Function GetMessageThread (int segIndex)
>
> var
>
> string thread
>
> let thread = StringSegment (GetChatWindowText (), "\r", SegIndex)
>
> return thread
>
> EndFunction
>
>
>
> Now the GetChatWindowText code
>
>
>
> String Function GetChatWindowText ()
>
> return EditGetText (GetChatHistoryWindowHandle ())
>
> EndFunction
>
>
>
> As you can see this is a bit of a treasure hunt. The ProcessNewMessages
> function uses the last string segment of the newly changed text of the
> chat
> history window as the newest message, and the segments are delimited by a
> carriage return. I'm puzzled as to why this gets stuck on a certain bit
> of
> text after a while. It doesn't seem to be consistent. I can't find a way
> to predict that. The only thing I can think of is that the EditGetText
> function calls some native windows object methods that are limited in how
> much output they can give in one instance of a window. Does anyone have
> any
> suggestion as to how to improve this issue?
>
>
>
> Tony Hernandez
>
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