Re: Mother and daughter windows (was Re: word and jaws)
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:24:00 -0700
Okay. No wonder that sounded a bit exotic to me.
Thanks.
xoic From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: Mother and daughter windows (was Re: word and jaws)
It's not called a daughter, it's called a child.
A child window is a window within an MDI (multiple document
interface) window.
Multiple document interface (MDI) is a technique used by programmers for
managing a set of
windows that are opened into child windows that are constrained
within a single parent window.
That all sounds really technical, smile.
But don't worry about it, Outlook Express and most programs don't use them.
That is why you probably aren't familiar with the term, and actually even if
you used a program with child windows you might not know the term, you would
just learn the program.
Another example of a program that uses child windows is Eudora.
Child windows are maximized with alt dash.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:13 PM
Subject: Mother and daughter windows (was Re: word and jaws)
I'd like to know, also, what it means if someone says that both the
"daughter" window and the main window in Word have to be maximized, if
that's what meant, below. I'm not aware of any window but the Word
interface with document and menu bar being present on a Word screen, and
also I've found with Jaws that nearly every conventional application of
mine, including Word, functions accurately with Word when it's set to
display just in the "normal" window mode, not maximized. My impression is
that sometimes,when something opens in a smaller window at first, as in the
case of an Outlook Express message just clicked on, it does definitely help
Jaws if you maximize the email using alt spacebar x. But I've never found
anything of the sort to be necessary in the program per se, including
Outlook Express when a message doesn't happen to be opened. I hope someone
will explain this mother/daughter window and maximizing advice.
thanks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: word and jaws
Hello, Everyone:
I am using JAWS 7.0 and Word 2003. When I open a document that has been
previously created and try to arrow down the document one line at a time
JAWS does not read the document correctly. There will be pauses in speech
and sometimes the words are partially read as if there is a window on the
screen. I was told that the daughter window and the main window in Word has
to be maximized for the document to read correctly. What does this mean?
Alicia
"The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of
>seeing people towards them."
>- Helen Keller, 1925
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