Re: Drag and drop using JFW 7.0

  • From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:19:55 -0400

Hey Pat, I don't know.  Do you have a particular game in mind?
If there is a version I can download and try, I'm willing to give it a go!
Debbie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ptusing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: Drag and drop using JFW 7.0


Debbie,
Has any one ever successfully used JAWS drag and drop to move game pieces on
a computer game board?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Debbie Scales" <debbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: Drag and drop using JFW 7.0


> Position the JAWS Cursor on the item you wish to move and press
> CTRL+INSERT+NUM PAD SLASH. You can leave the JAWS Cursor active, or you
> can
> switch to the PC Cursor. JAWS will keep speaking as you navigate. Once you
> have positioned the JAWS or PC Cursor in the location to which you would
> like to move the item, press CTRL+INSERT+NUM PAD SLASH again, and the item
> will be moved to the position of the active cursor.
> But if you can use copy and paste, I would use that instead of trying to
> drag and drop.
> The problem with drag and drop is both the place you are dragging from and
> the place you are dragging to, both have to be visible.  By visible I
> don't
> mean you have to be able to see them, grin, I mean they have to be on the
> same screen.  Maybe I can give an example to explain what I  mean.
> Say I open my computer and the c drive.  If I select a folder and press
> the
> drag and drop keystroke, then I can arrow down to another folder and
> repeat
> the drag and drop keystroke.  Jaws will drag it and place it inside of the
> folder I dragged it to.  But say I open that folder and I select a folder.
> I think backspace to be back at the main level.  If I press the drag and
> drop keystroke again, it will say the object can't be found.  Another
> example.  If two listboxes are on the same screen one on the right, one on
> the left, you should be able to drag and drop from one to another.  But if
> you try to drag and drop something and then go to another window of
> another application or something like that, jaws won't do it and will say
> the object can't be found and cancel the drag and drop operation .
> I hope that makes some sense, any sense at all, ha ha.
> What program are you trying to drag and drop in?
> Debbie
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M." <Rebecca.Pickrell@xxxxxxx>
> To: "JFW list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:55 PM
> Subject: Drag and drop using JFW 7.0
>
>
> Hi. Is there a way to drag and drop using JFW 7.0?
> If so, how do I do this?
>
>
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