[jawsscripts] Re: is this new jaws script syntax?

Hi,
Those are new "scope" identifiers, needed because Outlook 2007 uses Word as the editor exclusively. Using SwitchToConfiguration to launch the Word script set became very problematic, especially when dealing with exchange server timing issues. 
These identifiers tells Jaws which specific function to call.
For example, the FocusChangedEventEx is the first event triggered on a focus change. Microsoft Outlook 2007 has one, as does Microsoft Word 2007, MSOffice2007, and default.jss. 
They drop through if not redirected.
When going into a message, and the Word functions need calling, not the Outlook functions, then the FocusChangedEventEx needs to be redirected to the correct function, otherwise it would call the Outlook FocusChangedEvent, which would call the Outlook SayFocusedObject, and Outlook SayObjectTypeAndText, none of which are used in the message body in Outlook. So, in Outlook's FocusChangedEventEx, we caused it to look for the class of the message body, _WwG, and if the current class, then redirect it to call the Word's FocusChangedEventEx function, so the Word functions could process the message body. 
Microsoft_Word_2007::FocusChangedEventEx(...)
Now the correct functions get called, and no constant switching of script sets, vulnerable to timing issues. 

Self::
is only when you want the current script set's instance of that function to be used.
Scope is redundant if the functions would be called by simply dropping through. For example, 
; Overwritten event in MyScripts.jss...
Function ValueChangedEvent(...)
If GetCurrentControlId()==4444 Then
   Default::ValueChangedEvent(...) ; Calls default.jss
   Return
EndIf
ValueChangedEvent(...) ; Drops through to default.jss anyway.
EndFunction
If default is the next set, and you are already letting it drop through to default, then no scope is needed. Also, be careful not to get into a loop. You should never call up the chain, only down, otherwise you continually call the current function. In this example, the Word scripts don't use anything in the Outlook script set, so a scope to an Outlook function should never be used in the Word scripts, since the Word script set is called in a "use Microsoft Word 2007.jsb" line within Microsoft Outlook 2007.jss file. 
Hth.

Thanks,
Dennis Brown
----- Original Message ----- From: "Artur Räpp" <rtr@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: [jawsscripts] is this new jaws script syntax?



Hi,

I use jaws 9.
I found in Microsoft Outlook 2007 script file (Microsoft Outlook 2007.JSS)following 
default::SayAllStoppedEvent()
line 5434, function SayAllStoppedEvent()
is these 2 colons new jaws scripting language syntax? I haven't seen such thing before. 

in same file are:
line 173, function ScreenStabilizedEvent
Microsoft_Word_2007::ScreenStabilizedEvent(hwndLastScreenWrite)

line 215, function AutoStartEvent
self::LoadApplicationSettings ()

line 282, function FocusChangedEventEx
 msoffice2007::FocusChangedEventEx (hwndFocus,
nObject,nChild,hwndPrevFocus,nPrevObject, nPrevChild,nChangeDepth)

Artur
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