[jawsscripts] Re: How to capture text between two points in an editor?
- From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:42:30 -0700
I tried this a bit last night, but ran into a similar problem, since the
rectangle doesn't remain proportional as more items are selected line by
line and word by word, etc.
The GetTextBetween function appears to only return the text at the same
horizontal position, so only one line at a time gets announced instead of
the whole string from beginning to end.
Perhaps a recursive function would do the trick, where each line is recorded
into an array string to record the leftEdge and rightEdge coordinates, and
when the horizontal position changes, a new array value can be added to the
string, which can then be parsed later to get the variable selected text
line by line using GetTextBetween, then string all of them together to make
a complete string. I think, I'll have to experiment a bit later tonight to
see if this is possible.
Too bad there doesn't appear to be a recursive function to get all of the
text from the top-left position through the bottom-right position in the
same manner as a frame is created.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Slack" <m.g.slack@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:38 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How to capture text between two points in an
editor?
> Have you tried the GetTextInRect function, adding offsets if necessary to
> slightly increase the size of your bounding rectangle?
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 7:29 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] How to capture text between two points in an
> editor?
>
>
> This probably sounds like a stupid question, but here it goes...
> I've got the x and y coordinance of two specific points within an editor,
> the x and y for the beginning of the text, and the x and y for the end of
> the text.
> Capturing the text between the points within a rectangle doesn't work,
> because if the selected text is all of one line, and part of another line,
> the vertical position doesn't encompass all of the selected text.
>
> Plus this selected text isn't recognized by the GetSelectedText function,
> so
> in case you're wondering, this is why I'm trying to write a workaround.
>
> Hopefully I'm missing a function specifically designed for this purpose,
> but
> I haven't had much luck locating it. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
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