[jawsscripts] Re: DOM assignments in JAWS Scripts
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:49:06 -0400
Thanks for confirming my findings and stating it in proper terminology. I
am glad this works! It just seemed somewhat inefficient requiring all of
thee intermediate objects, especially on large web pages. It is certainly
not a problem on the small web pages that I am working on, since it was
designed for mobile devices. Perhaps with memory so cheap anymore, this
would never be an issue.
Don Marang
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From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:47 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: DOM assignments in JAWS Scripts
> JAWS can assign to object properties, but only one level deep, and not
> when you have to index something on the left side of the equal sign.
> So for a made-up example, you can not say, let o.prop(3).value = 5.
> You can do this though:
>
> let o1 = o.prop(3)
> let o1.value = 5
>
> As to your other question, I'm not fully clear on this, but I think
> oDoc.id1 is the same as oDoc.getElementByID("id1"), and I think there
> are other shortcuts like that. I may not be fully right about this.
>
> Hth.
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:50:51PM -0400, Donald Marang wrote:
> Good Evening,
> I have been playing around with manipulating Internet Explorer DOM objects
> in a JAWS script. I have noticed that JAWS seems to be able to handle
> only one level at a time. Therefore, I accomplished what I wanted with a
> series of assignments. I have never programmed DOM objects in an object
> oriented language, or any other language for that matter. Is this
> normal? Am I doing something wrong? An example is included below of a
> online DVR Scheduler search page.
>
> ; Empty Search page has:
> ; testInput search field, "Title & Description" (byTitle) and "Channel"
> (byChannel ) buttons
> let oDoc = ieGetCurrentDocument ()
> Let sURL = oDoc.url ; Creates the URL of the current page
>
> ; JAWS can not seem to assign directly like:
> ; Let oDoc.forms(0).testInput.value = sProgram
>
> Let oForm = oDoc.forms(0) ; the only form with an edit field and two
> buttons
> Let oButton = oDoc.buttons(0) ; first button, "byTitle"
> Let oEditField = oForm.testInput
> ; Is this the same as:
> ; Let oEditField = oForm("testInput")
> Let oEditField.value = sProgram
>
> Don Marang
>
>
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