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

Ok, thank you.
Well, as I said, when a program which is made with WxPerl, Jaws sees it as wx.dll, so if I want to create a script for it, the same script would be used for all the programs that use WxPerl, which is not ok. This doesn't happen when the program is made with another GUI library like Win32::GUI, so I think WxPerl does something that Win32::GUI doesn't do. But I don't know what should I ask the WxPerl developers for, because I don't know where gets Jaws that information from, so I don't know what should be changed in order to make Jaws to recognize each program made with WxPerl as distinct programs. 

Thanks.

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 7:35 PM
Subject: 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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