[jawsscripts] Re: surpassing the limitations of built-in SendMessage
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:41:49 -0900
I would expect first person shooters to be out of reach so long as we
are reliant upon text to speech or touch for computer interaction.
Perhaps one day the recently approved artificial retina will improve
to the point where it would make normal vision available to those of
us whose blindness is due to any degree of eye (rather than optic
nerve or brain) problem.
On 2/19/13, mário gabriel <mario.gnv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi doug lee .
>
> sorry answer upon your topic, but I tried send a new message to this list
> with new
> topic but the message has not arrived
>
> hi all.
> I want to ask a question to the experts scripts for jaws.
> guys you can create scripts to jaws interact with the games visually
> challenged?
> such as:
> call of duty, point blank, medal of honor, and more.
> the question is if you can create scripting menus to read this kind of
> games first persone shooter.
> only to read the menus of the games to be able to play the game without
> needing someone to help us.
> or this is just a dream?
> someone say it's possible but I do not believe.
> please tell me something.
> sorry my bad inglish.
> cheers.
>
> -----Mensagem Original-----
> From: Doug Lee
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:46 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: surpassing the limitations of built-in
> SendMessage
>
> It shouldn't be a problem to pass a window handle to a COM method, as
> those are just integers, not strings or structures.
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 08:52:04PM +0200, Stefan Moisei wrote:
> Thanks Doug, you're helpful, as always.
> I guess you can't share that code as it pertains to SSB BART Group. This
> approach seems pretty complex for the little task I want to do, and I found
> an alternative solution. In this script I'm also using a com component of
> an
> open source software. I'm gonna add the SendMessage handling to that
> software which is written in Python. I'm confident python could handle
> this,
> but I haven't found any relevant examples. Still searching, as Python is
> not
> one of my specialties.
> I guess I can pass a window handle to a com component, right?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Lee
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 2:13 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: surpassing the limitations of built-in
> SendMessage
>
> Years ago, we at what is now SSB BART Group (but what was then
> Bartimaeus Group) proved that a DLL can be written to make this sort
> of thing possible. The DLL was never released nor used in any project
> of which I am aware, but I remember it included COM-callable functions
> for allocating and freeing blocks of memory and allowed string passing
> via those memory blocks. Structures are trickier because you can't
> include a null byte in a JAWS script string value, but I don't
> remember whether we addressed that one at the time. I also doubt we
> addressed any 32-bit versus 64-bit OS issues. I know of no current
> implemented solution, but maybe this is enough information to point
> you in the right direction for making one.
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 01:45:58PM +0200, Stefan Moisei wrote:
> Hi,
> As I understand it, the built-in SendMessage function doesn???t allow
> passing of structures or strings. For one of my projects, I???m required to
> pass a structure of type POINTL to a program.
> Has anyone found a convenient solution to this? Maybe a com component or
> something.
> Thanks.
> www.Vortex.IM
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