[jawsscripts] Re: Making one window speak another's contents

  • From: Steve Matzura <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:04:31 -0400

That's certainly another way. Although, I've since discovered that
speaking another window (which is really a sub-window of the first
one) won't work because the text I need spoken moves around, but it's
always on the same two lines relative to cursor position.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:15:21 -0500, you wrote:

>All the text event functions pass the handle of the window where new text was
>written or updated. A first pass could be something like: if the text in window
>y must be spoken whenever window x changes in any way, globally record both x
>and y and call sayWindow(y) whenever x shows up as a parameter to the text 
>event
>you determine to be reporting contents changes for x.
>
>On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 14:25:28, Steve Matzura wrote:
>> 
>> I am finally back to scripting for a terminal application which I
>> discussed on this forum a while back. Everything's working well, all
>> the frames speak when they're supposed to, etc., etc. I would like to
>> automate a function that will read a window, or, even better, read
>> current line, every time anything on the screen changes. Of course, I
>> can't tie my script to the ENTER key--or can I? If it turns out that I
>> cannot, that'll have to be, I'll just tie it to CTRL+ENTER or
>> something like that. Anyway, the issue is, as the title says, make one
>> window speak contingent on the modification of another. Any thoughts?
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