[jawsscripts] Re: Handle of a window whose text changed is needed,

  • From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:09:59 -0900

Jeff,

I'll be honest, I tend not to keep up with how people do UI.  That was
true even when I could see and it's become even more true since.

On 2/11/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> wow Soronel, I'm kinda surprised at your having written this below.
>
> Do you not feel that more programs than not of late, are abandonning the use
> of fixed control ID's for their windows?
> i.e. that they're more often than not, as dynamic as the handles themselves
> are?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:53 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Handle of a window whose text changed is needed,
>
>
>> If IDs aren't fixed it's going to be way harder.  It would be a very
>> strange program that didn't use fixed IDs however.
>>
>> On 2/9/10, Jitendra <jeet.invincible@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > if IDs are not fixed?
>> > Soronel Haetir wrote:
>> >> Looking at how FS does it the answer would mostly appear to be
>> >> scripts that check if one of those sliders is active then use the
>> >> control ID (which is generally a constant value unlike window handles)
>> >> to get the edit field window and then extract and speak the updated
>> >> value.  And if none of the sliders are active then PerformScript to
>> >> invoke the default.
>> >>
>> >> On 2/9/10, Jitendra <jeet.invincible@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hello friends, in a program, there are several sliders, pressing arrow
>> >>> or pageup or down keys, changes the slider, but that slider change is
>> >>> not very meaningful to the user, so there is sometimes an edit box,
> and
>> >>> sometimes a static window to give some other percentage, so is it
>> >>> possible to get the handle of the window whose text is recently
> changed
>> >>> by sayNonHiLighted text or new text event function, so we can say the
>> >>> text of that window on each key press when the focus is on the slider?
>> >>> note that the information window may be some times after the slider,
>> >>> sometimes before it, since it is not fix for each slider, it is not
>> >>> possible for me to use the get next or prior window functions
>> >>> successfully.
>> >>> it is a company program for one of my friend's workplace.
>> >>> Thank you, Jitendra.
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