[jawsscripts] Scripting question
- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:53:39 +0200
Hello and happy new year!
I tried to create a script that speaks the number of messages in a folder in
Windows Live Mail, but there are important things that don't work and I
don't know why.
I have added a few comments in this script below. This script is activated
with the hotkey Insert+PageDown, which is useless in WLM:
Script NumberOfMessagesInAFolder ()
var String obj = GetWindowClass (GetFocus()) ;get the class of the
object with focus
;press tab once if the focus is not in the tree view and get the new
object with focus
If obj != "WLXDUI" Then
{Tab}
obj = GetWindowClass (GetFocus())
EndIf
SpeechOff() ;make Jaws not speak anything for the moment
{Shift+F10} ;open context menu
{UpArrow} ;select the properties menu element
{Enter} ;open the properties window
delay(5) ;allow some time for that window to open
RouteJAWSToPc () ;activate Jaws cursor and move it in this properties
dialog window
{PageDown} ;move the Jaws cursor at the bottom of the properties window
{UpArrow} ;move the Jaws cursor one line up, where appears the number
of messages
var String nr_messages = GetLine () ;read the line and store it in
nr_messages var
{Escape} ;press escape and close the properties window
SpeechOn() ;activate speech
SayString("test" + nr_messages) ;say the line with the number of
messages
EndScript
All well and fine, but the single problem is that it doesn't work. :-)
If the currently selected folder is say "Deleted items", then pressing
Insert+Page Down to run this script just makes Jaws to speak "test Deleted
Items", so the GetLine() function is executed immediately and it reads the
name of the folder. (I added that string "test" + the number of messages to
be sure that this line is executed).
You've seen that I used delay(5) to wait for the properties window to open
for 0.5 seconds.
Even if I use a much longer time, Jaws waits that time without speaking
anything, but then it still speaks the name of the current folder.
I thought that maybe GetLine() reads the line where the PC cursor is, and
not the Jaws cursor, but I read that this function uses the active cursor,
and the active cursor after JawsToPC is the Jaws cursor.
I even added another line that explicitly turns on the Jaws cursor, but it
worked the same.
You've also seen that I added a line with {Escape} that closes the
properties window. I even commented that line to not close the properties
window, but still the folder name was spoken.
Do you have any idea what is missing? Should I add another function that
specifies somehow that the active window is the properties dialog or
something like that?
Thanks.
--Octavian
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