[jawsscripts] instituting a find command across multiple pages of data?

Scripters.  I have only two days left here at the office of the project at 
which I've been working for the past xx weeks, and I'd reeeeally like to 
implement
one more feature that I was wondering if someone could help me with a bit?

Got a situation where searching for a street number across multiple 
screens/pages would be rather desirable to have a computer-based method of 
doing, in
that the sightlings can far more easily glance down a list of records and 
just manually flip pages till they find it, than the vip can.

So, what I was wanting to do, was implement some iteration of jawsFind, or 
FindString command, that allowed me to:

A. have the user hit control+f and bring up a box asking what to search for, 
as in the jawsFind box or something equivalent.

B. have them type that string in and hit enter.

C. for the script to look on the current screen, if not found, flip to the 
next page, pause a bit to insure settling, then look on that screen. if not 
there,
flip to the next page and so on, until found.

obviously implementing some limit/safety while count thinggy to stop at a 
certain number of pages etc.

Then, if/when found, take the jaws cursor to the beginning of that string 
onscreen, then flip back to the left a certain distance and click in the 
spot
which will immediately bring focus to that record for the user, such that my 
onFocus frame commands then kick in and read the appropriate data from it.

Could such be done?

I've started having a bit of a mess with this myself, but, ... well I've got 
such lame knowledge, that I'm even unsure how to stop the normativ jawsfind
box, from wanting to pop up another message/ok box thinggy, as an error on 
the first page when it can't find the string on that screen.  As of course 
this
is what jawsFind function is normatively supposed to do?

But then wehn I thought about seeking to utilize FindString command, I 
realized I was additionally so knowledge-lame that I had no idea how to make 
code
that could prompt the user for the string to insert into that second 
parameter of the FindString function, to even start the whole ball rolling!

If any kind soul could assist with anything here, be very much appreciated!

I was initially gunna do this in virtual buffer land, loading maybe 20 pages 
of data or something into the virtual viewer, and seeking to keep track of
what page of data was what, utilizing some kind of variable or something. 
then if found in virtual buffer land search, which I knew would be faster 
than
the more "live" method I've proposed above, and then try and go back to the 
live option and find the page, and then do the jawsFind onscreen.  But I'm
thinking now that the live method I've proposed above would be just a lot 
simpler and more straight ahead, not worrying about virtual buffer issues 
etc.

As I say, if anyone could give me any tips on how I might implement, this 
would be just great!

thanks.

geoff c. 

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