[jawsscripts] Re: An interesting scripting problem
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- Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 02:32:47 -0400
Jackie:
You teach scripting? Where can I find your course?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie McBride
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 11:30 PM
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: An interesting scripting problem
I do somethin kinda weird, I guess, but it has really helped me a lot.
Immediately after a while statement, b4 putting any conditions, etc.,
I press enter twice, put my incrementor, then an endwhile. I always
also put an endif immediately after every if statement. I find it
eliminates a great many errors. I actually teach that in my scripting
course, because it's 1 of the tricks that's taken me awhile to figure
out (I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed), & I was hoping it'd help
my students not to have to go thru as many errors as I did b4 I
finally at least got a little smarter.
Hopefully some of yall on this list will find it helpful as well,
though I suspect most of u are a lot sharper than I & have probly
already figured it out.
On 5/7/12, Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Note that the desktop window with a handle of 0 is the root desktop
> window, it's what is present if explorer dies (or is killed). The
> usually visible desktop window is the shell desktop window. I know
> there's a windows API to get that too, but I'm not sure if jaws
> script mirrors it, and I'm too lazy to go look.
>
> On 5/7/12, Don Marang <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The Desktop has a window handle of 0. If you look at the window
>> hierarchy, the Desktop is at the root of the entire window tree of
>> handles. Therefore, starting a window handle search starting with 0
>> searches through all handles from all applications.
>> *Don Marang*
>> Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
>> <http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
>>
>>
>> On 5/7/2012 12:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>> I'm not sure, but I went another route (see other messages with better
>>> script solution).
>>>
>>> On Sun, 6 May 2012 19:59:51 -0500, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> A start handle of 0? That won't work, will it?
>>>> Don't you need to have a valid handle of some ancestor?
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Steve Matzura" <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: "jawsscripts" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 9:34 AM
>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] An interesting scripting problem
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm scripting an application that has a window that's sometimes there,
>>>> sometimes not. The first order of business is to check if the window
>>>> is there, and if it is, set focus to it. I know the control ID of the
>>>> window, 1019. I'm trying to use FindDescendantWindow with a start
>>>> handle of 0 to verify its existence. My script so far looks like this:
>>>>
>>>> Script ReadSearchStatus ()
>>>>
>>>> var handle hwin
>>>>
>>>> let hwin = FindDescendantWindow (0, 1019)
>>>>
>>>> if hwin > 0
>>>> then
>>>> Say ("search window present.", ot_jaws_message, false)
>>>>
>>>> ; Insert code to set focus to the window. Should I even bother
>>>> ; with this?
>>>> ; Should I just try setting focus and if it fails, assume the window's
>>>> ; not present?
>>>>
>>>> else
>>>> Say ("search window is not present.", ot_jaws_message, false)
>>>>
>>>> endif
>>>>
>>>> EndScript
>>>>
>>>> The problem is, it always comes up saying the window is present, even
>>>> when it's not.
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