[jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for custom script for it?
- From: "Ken Burgess" <kenburg@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 23:28:44 -0400
When I looked at GetProgressBar it wanted the following parameters:
Parameter 1
the prompt of the Progress Bar.
Parameter 2
the value of the progress bar as a percentage.
So, what do you put in for parameter 1? I guess I'm asking, what is a
prompt?
I guess parameter 2 is just an integer?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 10:56 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for custom
script for it?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Ah. hmmm.
> Thanks Jim for this info re the GetProgressBar function.
>
> When time permits I will experiment further with this, and see if I can
> make
> it sing and dance at all, re this ByRef feature of which you speak. which
> I
> must confess I'm at present only very vaguely cognisent with.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
> From: "Jim Snowbarger" <Snowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:02 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for
> custom
> script for it?
>
>
>> This function, GetProgressBarInfo, is a bit obsscure as presented by the
>> control+i wizard in the Script manager.
>> The two parameters, as shwn in file builtin.jsd, are byref strings, which
>> means you provide two strings, and it pokes information into them for
>> you.
>>
>> You don't get to give it any starting point information. It apparently
>> assumes the current RealWindow, as dictated by what has focus at the
>> moment.
>>
>> When I ran this function in Sound Forge 10, while a long operation was
>> under
>> way, it returned nothing at all.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steve Matzura" <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 11:15 AM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Builtin progress Bar command? or ideas for
>> custom
>> script for it?
>>
>>
>> There already is one. See GetProgressBarInfo.
>>
>> On Mon, 7 May 2012 12:49:29 +1000, you wrote:
>>
>>>Although perhaps slightly off-topic, wondering if anyone new of any
>>>builtin
>>>command already in jaws, to simply read/announce the progress bar, if it
>>>exists, in a given window.
>>>instead of having to listen all the way through,
>>>to what seems to me, to be the extremely poor/long neglected and overdue
>>>for tightening up,
>>>current rendering of the Read Box, jawskey+B script?
>>>BTW does anyone else think this Jaws+B
>>>script is just incredibly ppoor? i.e. how many times it reads
>>>information,
>>>and how although it's supposed to read in Tab order, or some such thing,
>>>it
>>>just seems to read information most non-intuitively to me?
>>>anywayz back to progress bars,
>>>The progress bar info does get spoken if you are prepared to wade through
>>>the announcement of the Read Box script,
>>>but I just find it hard to believe there wouldn't be a dedicated
>>>keystroke
>>>to announce just this info to end user.
>>>
>>>And, if not, would any kind soul be prepared to provide some example code
>>>of how I might go about creating a reliable script to return this info?
>>>
>>>And, whilst on this trip, another piece of reeeally useful
>>>info I'd very much like to be able to far more readily retrieve, is what
>>>list Item I'm currently focused on, in a standard listbox?
>>>At present, the only way I know how to hear this, is to hit
>>>ReadCurrentLine, and wait through the whole shpeel this returns, to hear
>>>at
>>>the very end, this information, x of y.
>>>
>>>These two little things have been of some frustration to me for quite
>>>some
>>>years.
>>>
>>>Thanks much for any tips/feedback on these.
>>>
>>>Geoff c.
>
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