[jawsscripts] Re: Counter Point program

  • From: "Ann Medlar" <amedlar1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:42:56 -0400

Hi Jerry,
Not that I know but did you save cursor and reset cursor.  Also do you 
return?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Posey" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Counter Point program


> What am I doing wrong? I used the IsJAWSCursor and it's working but when I
> change to the JAWS Cursor within Counter Point the PC cursor is still 
> active
> but it reads the information under the JAWS cursor but only the PC cursor
> moves.
> I also tried the read only labeled graphics but I don't think they are
> actually graphics as it says symbol for them.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jerry
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Martin Slack <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried using the IsJAWSCursor () function to distinguish between
>> the
>> two states you describe?  If your script contains code such as:
>>
>> if (not IsJAWSCursor ()) then
>> ; do your close out ticket stuff here
>> endif
>>
>> then hitting down arrow while the JAWS cursor is active should not cause
>> the
>> script to interfere with that cursor's movement.
>>
>> hth
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jerry Posey" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:30 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Counter Point program
>>
>>
>> > I'm writting scripts for a point of sale program called Counter Point
>> > which
>> > is written in Cobol. Most of the movement in the program is done with 
>> > the
>> > enter key except when they go to close out a ticket. Then the down 
>> > arrow
>> > is
>> > used. If I try to capture the down arrow key with the script then they
>> > can't
>> > use the JAWS cursor to move around the screen. I'm trying to figure out
>> > what
>> > other events I might be able to use to get it to read the information.
>> > I've
>> > tried to use a frame to speak when the text changes but it reads a lot 
>> > of
>> > information that doesn't show up on the screen.
>> > Another problem with the program is that when it's writting to the 
>> > screen
>> > JAWS reads everything on the line including graphics that are written 
>> > to
>> > the
>> > screen and when I try to use the GetChunk function it gets the whole 
>> > line
>> > with all the graphics.
>> > Any suggestions on an event to use when the down arrow is pushed?
>> > Jerry Posey
>> > Envision, Inc.
>> > Wichita, KS
>> >
>> >
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