[jawsscripts] Re: pesky damn combo boxes, revisited

  • From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:40:05 -0700

Chad, here seems to be the problem: the parent window of the combo box
in question contains not only objects from the combo box being worked
with, but others as well, & objects often have identical names. So
trying to sort which object belongs to which combo box is gonna be a
well, uh, b-word. Maybe I will be able to figure out which objects go
w/which boxes, but the problem is that there are 4 combo boxes--1 for
soft synths, which is actually easy to figure out where they belong, &
3 identical boxes that contain names of effects which can be chained
together. These obviously have all identical names, so trying to
figure out which names go with which is gonna get interesting, but
I'll play w/it some more. Thanks for the suggestion.

On 4/30/08, Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In short, James, no, but it'd sure make my life easier if I could.
> Chad, let me look a little closer at what u r saying here. This is 1
> of the most MSAA *unaware* apps I've worked w/in a long, long time &
> also poorly written, e.g., combo boxes & radio buttons have a couple
> different window classes (e.g., comboLBox & TComboBox) even within the
> same program! I really think part of what's happened here is that
> they've continued to add features over the years but never revised the
> code to bring it into sync w/the new tools they're using, etc. Having
> said all that, I'm not altogether certain I'm intelligent enough to
> know how to do what u just said were the app the most well-written in
> the world, Chad. But I'll look at it some more & see if maybe I can't
> muddle thru.  I really do wish I could find some decent materials &
> docs regarding objects, MSAA, UI automation--whatever & all of the
> above. Any suggestions from any1 welcome. I have downloaded both the
> windows & MSAA sdk, but it seems as though they kind of assume u
> already know what you're doing--not a good assumption when it comes to
> lil oal me, that's a certainty.
>
> Frustrated.
>
> On 4/30/08, James Dietz <James.Dietz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can't you just use alt+down to "open" the combo, choose item, then alt
> > +up to "select" it?
> >
> > James
> > On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Jackie McBride wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, yall, as I think I explained in a previous post, I've got a combo
> > > box which, when the arrow keys are pressed, not only give the item
> > > focus but select it as well. The problem here is that, when one
> > > presses a key, if the synth is not working or whatever, u get a dialog
> > > box to that effect & then u gotta go back to the combo & select
> > > something else. Real pita. So I tried collecting the objects contained
> > > in the combo box into a list with dlgSelectItemInList. Works fine
> > > until the item is selected, e.g., I'm havin trouble matching the item
> > > selected in the list to the item selected in the combo box. I was
> > > playin around w/a whole lot of stuff--SetCurrentItem, (works
> > > intermittently but does not select), send message (doesn't seem to
> > > work at all though perhaps I'm doing that wrong), click object by name
> > > (says it works but doesn't), just trying to click it (object can't be
> > > found).
> > >
> > > Any1 got any brilliant ideas? Appreciate anything any1 has to offer.
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