[jawsscripts] Re: Scripting alternative for highlight tracking if custom highlight does not work
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:47:12 -0700
This is what the confignames.ini file is all about, i.e., put in
something like boreland*=boreland.jss or whatever it is & you're
golden.
On 7/23/12, Bram Duvigneau <bram@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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