[jawsscripts] Re: BX Anomaly
- From: Jim Bauer <holdsworthfan@xxxxxx>
- To: Doug Lee <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:52:44 -0500
Renaming stringCompare itself and all calls thereto worked like a
charm. Thanks, Doug.
Original message
from: Doug Lee <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: BX Anomaly
date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:31:34 -0400
>Mostly off the top of my head, but this should work:
>
>1. Turn BX on with JAWSKey+Space.
>
>2. Go to the BX Configuration map by typing apostrophe, then Ctrl+B.
>
>3. Press J to open bx.jcf in Notepad.
>
>4. Find the line that says something starting with ObjTrackMaxTicks=,
>and change the number after the equal sign to -1. That should disable
>reporting of this sort.
>
>If this doesn't help, or if you find the value is already -1, chances
>are you're running an old enough JAWS version that the Windows
>Calculator scripts still contain the bug of replacing the now built-in
>JAWS StringCompare function with a different version, which breaks BX
>and any other scripts that use that function. The solution to that
>one, I'm afraid, is to carefully rename StringCompare in your Windows
>Calculator script files (that's "files," not just one file) to
>something else, for both definition line and all calls to it.
>
>Hth.
>
>On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:51:44AM -0500, Jim Bauer wrote:
>When the BX toolbox is installed and I press keys attached to scripts
>in the Windows Calculator, the clipboard is overwritten with something
>like the following:
>
>Monday, June 22, 2009, 10:26:09, getObjectFromEvent warn:
>Last script ClearButton, key Escape
>Current script file Windows Calculator.JSB
>Active application calc.exe, title Calculator
>tc 0:
>Window 7996678, class Edit, name , path 6.1
>ObjID -4, childID 0
>Returning childID 0
>Returning object as integer: 0
>
>This string is also spoken and is preceded by the string "log entry",
>which is not copied. The state of BX has no affect on these log
>messages. This behavior is presently exclusive to calc.exe.
>
>Is there a quick fix, anything I need to do/should try, etc?
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