Thanks, John. I will put some time away to play with this. There is a lot happening in this function. Rod Alcidonis, Esquire Alcidonis Law Office 2824 Cottman Avenue Suite 15 Philadelphia, PA 19149 O: (215) 305-8085 Work: attorney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Listservs: lawoffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.Alcidonislaw.com No-fault family law, immigration, and personal injury -----Original Message----- From: John Martyn Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 4:13 AM To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Plese help with this basic script First off, you are looking at same logical level instead of many parents. You can only have one parent of an object. Here is some code you can play with. I use it in Lind Tunes to find windows traversing the window structure. This is a good function to keep around. Modify it for your needs. John Martyn HANDLE Function GetTargetName (string tWinName, string tWinClassName, int skip) var handle cWin, string cWinName, string cWinClassName, handle nWin, string direction, handle childWin, handle parentWin, string converted, int flagged, int continue, int safety, int classFlag, int skipCount let cWin = ApplicationMainWindow let safety = 1 let flagged = 0 let direction = "down" let continue =0 let classFlag = 1 while continue== 0 if cWin == ApplicationMainWindow then if flagged == 1 then ;Say ("The specified window was not found",3) return endif let flagged = 1 let cWin = GetFirstChild (cWin) let cWinClassName = GetWindowClass (cWin) else if direction == "down" then let childWin = GetFirstChild (cWin) if childWin == 0 then let nWin = GetNextWindow (cWin) if nWin == 0 then let direction = "up" let cWin = GetParent (cWin) let cWinClassName = GetWindowClass (cWin) else let cWin = nWin let cWinClassName = GetWindowClass (cWin) ;SayString ("next window") endif else let cWin = childWin let cWinClassName = GetWindowClass (cWin) ;SayString ("next child") endif elif direction == "up" then let nWin = GetNextWindow (cWin) if nWin == 0 then let direction = "up" let cWin = GetParent (cWin) let cWinClassName = GetWindowClass (cWin) else let cWin = nWin let cWinClassName = GetWindowClass (cWin) ;SayString ("next parent") let direction = "down" endif endif endif let cWinName = GetWindowName (cWin) ;Say (cWinName, 3) ;Say (cWinClassName, 2) if StringCompare (cWinClassName, tWinClassName, 0) == 0 && StringCompare (cWinName, tWinName, 0) == 0 then let skipCount = skipCount+1 if skipCount == skip then ;SayString ("The window has been found") ;Say (cWinName, 3) ;sayinteger(cWin) let continue = 1 return cWin endif endif if safety == 500 then ;SayString ("safety has been triggered") return endif let safety = safety+1 endwhile EndFunction -----Original Message----- From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alcidonislaw Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:49 PM To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jawsscripts] Plese help with this basic script Hello gang: I am in the process of writing this script. My intention is to crawl pass a few windows to get to the window I want to click on. However, as you will see in my commented script, the "GetParent" function doesn't want to go pass the first parent. What is it that I am doing wrong? Shift F2 using the utility indicates there are more than one parent window there for me to crawl through. Script QuickClicks () var Handle hw, String shw Let hw = GetAppMainWindow (GetCurrentWindow ()) ; found my focus window just fine If GetControlName () == "STILISTBOX" then ; This tells me I am in the window where I want to be because that's where I need to start to crawl through its parent, and its parent's parent. let shw = GetWindowClass (GetParent (GetFocus ())) ; my first attempt to crawl pass the first parent. I was successful. If hw then ;If it is the first parent that I just found. let shw = GetWindowClass (GetParent (GetFocus ())) ; my second attempt to go to the next parent (after that I would have one more to go) Say (shw, Ot_Status, false) ;it reports that I am still on the first parent. In other words, my second attempt did not work. Else Say ("not found", OT_Status, false) Endif Endif EndScript Please help me understand how to crawl through a bunch of parents to get to the one window... Thank you Rod __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts __________� View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts