[jawsscripts] Re: White on black highlight
- From: "John Robichaud" <JRobichaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:49:22 -0400
Geoff,
With Custom Only checked for Extra.jcf the restriction is limited to =
only
the Extra emulator & doesn't affect Windows highlights.
John
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From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoff Chapman
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:40 AM
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: White on black highlight
John/list,
but, wouldn't that solution stop all of the regular windows highlight =
colors
though from autoSpeaking, like white on navy, or whatever that standard
windows highlight color often is?
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Robichaud" <JRobichaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 4:27 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: White on black highlight
> Alice,
> I encountered a similar problem using the Attachmate Extra emulator =
with
> Jaws 8.0 & 9.0. To resolve it: in the Extra.jcf file under Custom
Highlight
> Options I made sure there were no custom highlight colors set and =
checked
> the radio button for Custom Only. Works fine now.
> John Robichaud
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Smith, Alice A. =
HQ
> DCO
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:14 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: White on black highlight
>
> Sorry, I need more help.
>
> I changed the default TextOutDelay to 5 and then 25. It has no effect =
on
> JAWS speaking the white on black text.
>
> Do you, or does anyone know where FS made the change? White on Black =
was
not
> highlighted text in JAWS 7.1. It became highlighted in JAWS 8 and
continued
> in JAWS 9.=3D20
>
> I have changed the emulator jcf to use custom highlight only. This =
stops
the
> white on black text from speaking when the script has control. My =
issues
are
> when the script doesn't seem to have control and the default script =
does.
>
> 1. When I use CapsLock +Delete to either magnify or go back to
magnification
> level 1 when MAGic and JAWS are running together. (100% of the time).
MAGic
> alone doesn't speak the white on black text at all.
>
> 2. When an adjunct app. squeezes my emulator and places itself in the
> remaining display space. At this point, the emulator does not have =
focus
but
> JAWS speaks all the white on black text in the emulator anyway.
> (100% of the time)
>
> 3. When I close a window that is open on top of the emulator. (Depends =
on
> the window. I haven't nailed it down entirely.)
>
> In all these cases JAWS is transitioning from or to or has left the
emulator
> script entirely. So I really need a way to kill it in one of the =
default
> files without stopping the focus highlight from speaking. If I set the
> default.jcf to use only custom highlighting, JAWS will not speak when
> arrowing through the message list in Outlook (as just one example). So
that
> is not an option.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Farough
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:45 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: White on black highlight
>
> Hi Alice:
> This setting is found in the advanced options in the configuration
manager.
>
> Here is the Jaws help for this setting.
> This edit box specifies the number of milliseconds JAWS waits before
> speaking text newly written to the screen. The default value is 0.
>
> Here is the entry taken from my default.jcf file with some other
descriptive
> comments.
>
> ; number of milliseconds for JFW to wait before speaking newly written
text.
> ; Setting this to a non-zero value, may cause terminal programs to ;
respond
> in a less choppy fashion TextOutDelay=3D3D3D0
>
>
>
> HTH=3D3D20
>
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> >>> "Smith, Alice A. HQ DCO" <Alice.A.Smith@xxxxxxx> 12:31 PM
> Tuesday, June 10, 2008 >>>
> David,
>
> I will look at the MAGic jcf and play with it.
> It seems that when I press CapsLock+Delete to magnify, the =
application's
jcf
> for JAWS loses control for a bit and the default settings take over.
> So the white on black text is spoken. It's not 100% of the time, =
though.
>
> What is textout delay?
>
> The behavior happens without MAGic but not in the same way. The text =
will
be
> spoken frequently when I close a window that was open over top of my =
app.
It
> will always speak when I open an adjunct app that resizes my app's =
window,
> put's itself in the remaining display space and take the focus. I =
think
JAWS
> is doing a screen refresh.=3D3D3D20
>
> Alice
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:14 PM
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> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: White on black highlight
>
> Hi Alice:
> I have found the following entries in: magic screen magnification.jcf
>
> [OSM]
> UseCustomHighlight=3D3D3D3D3D1
> CustomHighlightTextColor=3D3D3D3D3D000000000
> CustomHighlightColor=3D3D3D3D3D255255000
>
> Perhaps this is causing the problem.
>
> What happens if you disable magnification?
>
> Does changing the textout Delay entry make any difference?
>
> Does this behaviour occur if Magic is not running?
>
> For what it's worth, I have noticed some performance issues when =
running
> Jaws and Magic together.
> >>> "Smith, Alice A. HQ DCO" <Alice.A.Smith@xxxxxxx> 11:25 AM
> Tuesday, June 10, 2008 >>>
> Does anyone know what file the line was added to add White text on a =
black
> background as a automatically spoken highlight in JAWS 8 and 9?
>
> I know how to change the highlight option to custom only but if I do =
that
in
> the default configuration it causes serious problems for Outlook and =
other
> applications.=3D3D3D3D3D20
>
> If I only change it in the application script, JAWS speaks all the =
white
> text anyway after a window closes that was open on top of my app. or =
when
> MAGic starts magnifying or when the app loses focus to another window =
that
> shares the screen with it.
>
> I need to do more than change the highlight options.=3D3D3D3D3D20
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Alice
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