[jawsscripts] Re: Scripting question
- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 21:02:15 +0200
No, unfortunately pause() doesn't help.
It seems that no matter if I use pause() or delay(10), all the lines of code
after it are executed immediately and then the delay is done.
--Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Farrow" <sean.farrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 3:29 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting question
> Hi,
> Does replacing your Delay(5) with just a pause function change the
> behaviour?
> Hth
> Sean.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita
> Sent: 01 January 2014 12:54
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Scripting question
>
> 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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