[jawsscripts] Re: introduction and, of course, a question
- From: "Tony Hernandez" <tonyhspeaks@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 22:13:05 -0400
Hi DC.
Well, it looks like I'm busted. Lol. It is Paltalk. Thank you for your reply
and suggestions. Unfortunately, if a chat post is more than 2 lines long,
which happens pretty often in my experience, trying to grab 2 strings isn't
always going to capture the whole post, and there's no way to my knowledge
to predict how many lines a post is going to ttake up. I've also thought of
using the colon in the post as a delimiter, the way the Miranda scripts do
as far as I know, but that wouldn't work satisfactorily because someone
might use a colon in their post as in when posting a smily, a time as in
12:00, or even a Bible verse.
I remember that Frank has written scripts for Paltalk, and I was familiar
with some of the code, but the people at BMG software have decided to change
internal information and made things inaccessible to the off screen model.
Worse than that, they also turned the settings and preferences dialog into
some sort of makeshift nonstandard monster with the controls totally
inaccessible to the keyboard by taking those controls out of the tab order.
The only button that can be manipulated with the keyboard in that dialog is
the OK button. They also took the chat history window out of the tab order
in voice rooms and instant message windows. Further still, they used to have
2 spaces between the colon after the username and the posted message, but
they made this one space instead, taking away yet another distinguishing
mark.
So you can see that I've exhausted a good deal of alternative solutions to
my problem. The next thing I might try is contacting BMG software and seeing
if they would allow partially trusted callers to access the iTextDocument
interface of the chat history window or, even better, implement MSAA.
Tony Hernandez
http://dutyofman.net/
http://blind-side.net/
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Skype: tonyspeaks
----- Original Message -----
From: "The Dark Count" <darkcount1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 7:59 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: introduction and, of course, a question
> Hey Tony.
> I am thinking you are working on paltalk?
> Frank used to do scripts for it but gave up after version 8 was so
> absolutely combolutd.
> Anyway, if I remember correctly the reason why you end up with two strings
> is because of the
> color.
> So the chat text is black and white, and the user name can be just about
> what ever.
> It also gets a bit more complex when people start to change their text
> color.
>
> I would stick to akom's razer.
> Since you are able to grab both even though they endup in sepparate lines
> or strings, you
> could just combine both strings into one.
> so
> why not have a third string that says something like
> let both = user+text
> with user being the name, and text the rest of the chat text.
>
> The other solution which is a nightmare to try because the new text event
> fires so fast and
> frequently would be to try to collect the last two lines of text from the
> jaws or invisible cursors
> using the cursor restrictions to keep you at the bottom of things.
> I suggest having a look at the myranda scripts written by jim grinsbey, or
> the messinger
> scripts.
>
> The last approach would be to grab a few lines from text event.
> so let ms1 = buffer, let ms2 = ms1, and let ms3 = ms2.
> Then slap ms2 and ms3 together.
> or even ms1 and ms2 on to their very own string.
>
> hth D C
>
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