I was thinking about that. Any good way or fast way to get started
with that besides the standard JAWS Script Utility?
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:50:59 -0500, you wrote:
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better luck exploring if there is any MSAA or UIA information available.
Hopefully there is, otherwise you will be pretty stuck.
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Matzura
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To: jawsscripts
Subject: [jawsscripts] What to do with a totally non-standard program's
interface
I've been hired to script, or do what I can with, a program called
Core5 from a company called Cluen. This program is nothing more than a
custom front-end to a relational database, I think it's SQL-based,
containing work history information for individuals--contact info, jobs
they've held, functions at those jobs, comp, bonuses, etc., etc.
Anyway, the program does not use one single solitary standard Windows
control, but most of the controls' names contain a seed that might tell you
to what standard Windows control they should be reassigned, such as the
class name "WinForm10.Edit.xxx" behaves like, and can be remapped to, the
edit window class, etc. This has worked well for many of the controls so
far, but there are several points when tabbing through the controls where
tables are encountered and all JAWS says is "row 1 read only," "row 2 read
only," "add row," and the data in these tables or lists doesn't read. I've
tried reclassing these things to lists and status areas, but I never get any
further than this "row 1 read only" business. I've tried to get the control
ID of the window where the data for these tables is displayed, but it's in
an area of the screen that JAWS doesn't see, kind of like the Windows
Notification Center wherein warning messages about Windows are displayed,
things like your firewall is off, or you don't have a backup strategy or
antivirus program running, those messages which are not readable by JAWS.
Since this Core5 program is just an SQL front end anyway, I'm wondering, is
there a better way to present this data, or something else better that I can
do to make some of these invisible fields read properly? I've even run Jamal
Mazrui's old WinDig program on this application, and the report it produces
isn't very helpful excepting what I've mentioned so far. OH yes, all the
reclassed edit fields have to be custom-labeled because the field names are
off in n-space somewhere, and JAWS just ignores them. This thing is quite a
mess. I'm wondering now if I have to dig deeper and start looking into
things I can do with the UIA.
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