[jawsscripts] Silent Short Messages

From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:06:08 -0400
I have a formatted message where I prefer JAWS not to speak the short message 
for users with Intermediate and Advanced verbosity set.  I would like to keep 
the code so the decision of what to say, including nothing is completely 
accomplished in the message file.  Not only is it cleaner and more flexible 
that way, but it makes it easier to translate to another language.  I tried 
several methods to silence the short message, including three examples below.  
The first example is my preferred method.  I thought a blank line or a space in 
the definition file as shown would silence the short message.  Unfortunately, 
the only way I could get JAWS 10 to use the short message was to have a 
speakable character in the message definition.  Otherwise, it would use the 
long message!  The closest I could get to silence was a period or comma!  The 
second example is what FS recommends in the SayFormattedMessage reference to 
silence the short message witgh the cmsgSilent constant.  The constant is 
simply a blank line, just as my message constant, and does not work any more as 
avertised!  By directly placeing a quoted space in the statement as in the 
third example,, silence is achieved!  Unfortunately, this is not as 
maintainable and flexible as the first example.  
Am I doing something wrong here?  Is there some way to define the message 
constant so it will not speak and yet not revert to speaking the long message?  
Is this a fairly new change / bug in JAWS?  

Example 1:
SayFormattedMessage (OT_MESSAGE, MSG_ANNOUNCE_APP_L, MSG_ANNOUNCE_APP_S)

where the short message is defined as a blank line:  

@MSG_ANNOUNCE_APP_S



@@



Example 2:

SayFormattedMessage (OT_MESSAGE, MSG_ANNOUNCE_APP_L, cmsgSilent)



Example 3:

SayFormattedMessage (OT_MESSAGE, MSG_ANNOUNCE_APP_L, " ") 

; Space forces a Silent short message for Intermediate and Advanced verbosity


Don Marang


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