RE: name of the current program, as seen by Jaws

I am betting they are hooking into win32 and watching for WM_ACTIVATE and then 
doing some complicated parsing to figure out what it is.  Some times its simple 
but sometimes if you have a modal dialog they don't call WM_ACTIVATE.  There 
are other win32 hooks you can grab to make sure you know when dialogs get 
activated but it's not a simple thing to explain.  You will need to grab window 
text some times and parse it using getWindowText and figuring out what's what 
and Jaws has been growing for years learning to do this.  

Maybe if you tell me what you would like to do I could figure out what you need 
to read up on to get it done.

Ken   

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 10:10 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: name of the current program, as seen by Jaws

But what about those programs that don't have scripts? (Like Notepad)

Or better said, if ScriptAndAppNames() function is a built in one, where 
does it gets the name of the currently running program?

Thanks.

Octavian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 4:31 PM
Subject: RE: name of the current program, as seen by Jaws


It gets it from the script file here is the script that is in Visual studio.

Script ScriptFileName ()
ScriptAndAppNames(vsmsg3_L) ;Visual Studio .NET
EndScript


-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 6:26 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: name of the current program, as seen by Jaws

Hi,

When I work with a program and I press Insert+Q, Jaws tells the name of that
program. Do you know where from it gets that name?
(For example when I work with Notepad it says "notepad.exe" and when I work
with OE it says "msoe.dll".)

Thank you.

Octavian

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