Re: is scripting of patch editing software practical?
- From: "david poehlman" <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:50:12 -0400
If the software is not functional as is with all the things that jaws can
do, scripting may help and some software is so bad that it cannot be
scripted. Jaws is no more powerfull at helping you with software that is
not supported by it than it ever was except perhaps for the fact that the
scripting language is more powerfull than it used to be but from what I
understand, in some ways, it is also more limitting. When attempting to
determine whether an application can or needs to be scripted, you should ask
your self or evaluate the software and its interaction with jaws can I use
this software as is with jaws without a lot of hastle? can I get at all the
controlls I need to get to?
Let's look at one example. Ad-aware will sort of function without the
scripts if you are really good at using the jaws cursor and remember to do a
couple of things to work around its issues. However, Debbie's excellent
scripting for it makes it far more usefull to the casual user in that it is
much more friendly and in some cases even usable where it was not usable
before for instance, when you want to remove all the objects it found in its
non scripted state, if you are lucky enough to be able to find one of them
and right click on it and use the jaws cursor to find select all opjects and
left click on it yadda yadda yadda which some people cannot do so it's
unusable without the scripts for them you can then proceed if you have
managed to set it up correctly as well so that all objects are deleted when
you click next. There are other places in the ad-aware application where
scripts help too but I won't go into more depth except to say that one
problem we have with or without scripting is that we cannot select
drives/folders because we cannot read the list apparently and this may not
be possible to script.
So, if this example and commentary guides you in determining whether a
script is needed, I am glad it helped. On the other hand, if your
application is well suited to jaws but you want to have jaws do something in
a different way, it may not be practical or wise to attempt to script the
behavior you want or to have that behavior scripted as it may break
something that already works. Before you decide then whether or not
something needs to or should be scripted, make certain that the
functionality you need is either not present at all or is quite difficult to
do if doable at all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "david ingram" <dingram269@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 9:24 AM
Subject: is scripting of patch editing software practical?
Hi list members, I'd like to know wheter scripting of what are called patch
editing librarian software packages is practical for those who use jaws
5.0844? The reason why i ask this question is because some people seem to
think that with all of the things that jaws can do now, that no scripting of
some software packages is necessary especially the programs that i'm trying
to use to edit sounds on my keyboards and moduals.
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