[nvda] Re: NVDA and Visual Basic labels

Makes sense.
Last time I did work in VB6 was around 5 years ago, and it was in any case not windows form things anyway.
I suppose you could try something like a read-only edit box, or try something like a tooltip popping up when an edit box gets focus, but not sure if this would either help with regard to MSAA as such.
Maybe try using something like a prompting/input entry message box or something? (unfortunately I'm actually thinking of JavaScript stuff while talking about this) 

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alasdair King" <alasdairking@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:13 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: NVDA and Visual Basic labels



Visual Basic 6 labels are drawn directly on the form: no hWnd, no MSAA
access. They don't work with Narrator either.

Visual Basic .Net labels comply with MSAA, so no problem there.

I'm a VB6 developer and have spent some time trying to find a simple
and free and Unicode-compliant label replacement, but no luck so far.

Best wishes,
Alasdair King
WebbIE

On Feb 19, 2008 5:36 AM, Jacob Kruger <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi recently did a small app to allow me to 'roll dice' myself by entering
minimum and maximum values etc., and just tested it using NVDA, and it does 
read the form labels for me fine.

FWIW, I used VS.Net 2005 (and VB.Net), and did in fact also set the
accessibility labels, but NVDA, for example, is also telling me the hotkeys 
which are set using the & character within the normal label, so it seems
fine.

Suppose it might be related to the fact that my small app was done within
the .Net framework 2.0, but anyway.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Crain" <Peter.Crain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 11:51 PM
Subject: [nvda] NVDA and Visual Basic labels


Hi,



I have developed a simple organiser program in VB 6.0 and labels are
readable in JAWS, Window Eyes and System Access however they do not seem
to read in NVDA. Is NVDA able to read VB labels ?



The freeware Organiser download link is
http://members.dodo.com.au/~pcrain1/organiser.html

Peter





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