[jawsscripts] Re: Help with a Problem Please
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 08:58:27 -0400
Some thoughts are as follows.
Try inserting a pause or delay after sending the Tab key. Try GetFocus
rather than GetCurrentWidnow (which is affected by which cursor is
active).
Perhaps the label is not, in fact, produced by a window that is
immediately prior in the tab order. So, try temporarily switching to
the invisible cursor, routing it to PC, and doing something like
PriorWord and SayWord.
Jamal
On 5/7/2010 8:00 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> I have an application which is essentially a data entry form with lots
> of various controls--combo boxes, checkboxes, raw text edit fields,
> you know the drill--but because of the physical placement on-screen,
> JAWS never speaks the field name prompts, only the data entry areas.
> So I wrote this function, keyed on the TAB key, which I will include
> at the end of this message. I learned, through the use of the Home
> Row Utility, that the window just to the left of the currently focused
> window (where the cursor is, ready for input) contains the field name.
> It shows up and displays 100 per cent consistently when I set the HRU
> F3 function to Type and Text. I can find a field, go into Home Row
> mode, back-bat once, and hear the field name. Hence the code below.
> However, in real life what happens is that it works for the first
> control only, then stops working for the rest of the fields on the
> screen. Oddly enough, when using back-TAB, it only works on the last
> item in sequence, which is, once again, the first field on the screen.
> Frankly, I'm surprised it has any affect at all, since the script is
> not designed to trap the back-TAB key at all.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
>
> Oh by the way, there's a lovely area on-screen that, for every field
> on which you focus for data entry, displays a long help text as to
> what that field is, the kind of data you should be typing into it,
> etc. Problem is, it doesn't show up anywhere (that I can find) in the
> hierarchy of windows, it acts like an HTML window in Internet
> Explorer, and once focused on it, pressing TAB will set you back to
> the beginning of the data entry screen, first field. I'm still
> puzzling this one out, but anyway, here's the function for reading the
> field name.
>
> Script ReadFieldName ()
>
> var
> handle hwnd
>
> {TAB} ; Pass the TAB key through to the app.
>
> let hwnd = GetCurrentWindow () ; where the focus is.
>
> if GetWindowType (hwnd) != WT_TREEVIEW then
>
> ; Don't perform this function on the tree view.
> ; The tree view acts like a multipage dialog box and speaks well ;
> without scripted assistance.
>
> let hwnd = GetPriorWindow (hwnd)
> ; Move left one window to where the field name is.
> SayWindowTypeAndText (hwnd) ; Speak it.
> EndIf
>
> EndScript
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