[jawsscripts] Re: How to capture text between two points in an editor?
- From: Chad Foster <chad.foster@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:14:46 -0400
This text area does not lie in a rich edit field does it? If using a
rich edit text field, or a Word document, or any other DOM-supported
program for that matter, you could use the back-end object model to
glean the text.
On 7/29/09, Bryan Garaventa <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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