[jawsscripts] Re: Scripting alternative for highlight tracking if custom highlight does not work
- From: Bram Duvigneau <bram@xxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:59:50 +0200
Hi all,
Just want to thank you all on the good advise here.
The custom script I wrote worked for a while, but suddenly stopped working.
Some deeper investigation turned out that JAWS is being very buggy in
determining a script/configuration name for an application. The application I
was working on identified as "borland.vcl.dll". JAWS was sometimes trying to
load "borland.jss" and "borland.vcl.jss" at other times.
So, to make a long story short. Just putting a SwitchConfiguration("borland")
in "borland.vcl.jss" ensured that I always had the expected script and JCF file
loaded. After that I disabled my custom script and added a custom highlight…
guess what? It worked fine!
Please note that insert+q always says "borland.vcl.dll" every time, only way to
check what really is loaded is putting some debug code in an AutoStartEvent. I
hope you remember this whenever you face this bugginess and that it does not
waste that much of your valuable time as it did for me.
Bram
On 19 jul. 2012, at 15:32, Jerry Posey wrote:
> For some reason I had to do that to get it to read correctly is all I can
> say. It might be because the program is written in cobol and is more like a
> dos program than a windows program. I've got other pieces of script in the
> same overall script that don't use the route JAWS to PC. I just copied a
> piece of code to give you an idea of where to start.
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Bram Duvigneau <bram@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply.
>> Could you explain the routing of JAWS to PC cursor? If I read this
>> correctly, the FindColors function would set the JAWS cursor to the found
>> position if any, but before you speak the text you are already routing the
>> JAWS cursor back to the PC cursor?
>>
>> Bram
>> On 18 jul. 2012, at 16:03, Jerry Posey wrote:
>>
>>> I did this in a new SayNextLine() and SayPriorLine() script to read a
>>> highlighted line in a popup box. I also had it inside an If IsPCCursor so
>>> it wouldn't limit using the jaws cursor it they needed to.
>>> Var string strText
>>> SaveCursor
>>> If FindColors (RGBStringToColor ("000255255"), RGBStringToColor
>>> ("000000128"), S_TOP) ==1 Then
>>> RouteJAWSToPC ()
>>> Delay (3)
>>> Let strText = GetColorField ()
>>> SayMessage (OT_LINE, strText)
>>> Endif
>>> That's one way I did it.
>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Bram Duvigneau <bram@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to let JAWS follow the highlighted row in a grid control.
>> First
>>>> thing I did was defining a custom highlight, but this didn't give any
>>>> feedback when arrowing through the grid.
>>>>
>>>> By using insert+5 I see that the colors of the highlighted row change to
>>>> the expected colors as defined in my custom highlight. Also, when
>>>> alt+tabbing away from the application and back again, insert+upArrow
>> reads
>>>> the right row. So, it seems JAWS sees the colors, but does not respond
>> by
>>>> searching for a new highlight when I arrow around.
>>>>
>>>> So, I would like to:
>>>> 1. Force JAWS to scan for a custom highlight when arrowing through the
>>>> grid. Or
>>>> 2. Write a custom script that searches for a highlight and reads it.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have some suggestions? Of course I would prefer option 1
>>>> because this might be more stable and reliable and less work. Any
>> example
>>>> code as a starting point for options 2 is also highly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
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