[program-l] How to get JAWS to act on cursor movement in VS 2013 if the movement is caused by something other than the arrow keys.
- From: Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Program-l <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:14:19 +0200
Hi there.
Sorry, I'm editing this email as new and then sending it again since I
want a bit more info in here before the thread hopefully! starts.
I was wondering if anyone here could perhaps help me with a JAWS
scripting issue. In VS 2013, when the cursor in the code editor moves, but
the move is caused by something other than the usual move actuators,
then JAWS seems to know that the cursor moved if I press Alt+Del, but
nothing is spoken
when the move happens.
Alt+Del reveals that the cursor is the PC cursor, and the line number,
hence JAWS is aware of the line change, but no actual content is voiced
when the line change via a cursor movement due to something other than
the arrow keys.
For example, if I move the cursor with the arrow keys, then each new
line or character or whatever is read properly, but if I move the
cursor through say a plugin VsVim then JAWS can detect that the cursor
moved, but it does not speak what it should - almost as if speech output
is only
tied to the conventional move actuators - arrow keys in this case.
Another example is if you press Ctrl+i for incremental search. You can
type in something that will then not type that text into the editor, but
rather perform an incremental search inside the document for your typed
text. Even if the cursor position changed due to this searching, JAWS
wont' read out the matched word or line, you have to issue Ins+up arrow
to have the line read to you.
Ideal behaviour here would be IMO that JAWS would read the entire line
as soon as a new search match was found, as soon as the cursor position
changed without having to require you to issue a JAWS command to read
the current line / word / char..
VsVim would move the cursor when the focus is in the code editor, when
VsVim is in normal mode (by pressing esc key), and one of the VsVim
movement chars is hit (j for down, k for up, h for left, l for right) -
for example.
I had a look at the standard JAWS scripts from FS for VS, and there is
quite a bit of code there, so this might also be interfering in some way.
I noticed that this event:
Void Function FocusPointMovedEvent (int nX, int nY, int nOldX, int
nOldY, int nUnit, int nDir, int nTimeElapsed)
either does not fire or is suppressed by other code in the scripts.
Since JAWS can actually detect line and column changes properly through
Alt+Del, I do think there must be a higher level event I could handle,
or in that event call the corresponding event from the FS scripts that
seem to handle cursor movement:
Script SayCharacter()
Script SayLine()
Script SelectNextLine()
etc.
So, my question is this:
1. Are there any other events I could handle, events that fire when the
PC cursor is busy editing something and moving around.
2. How can I detect that the focus is in the code editor or output window?
3. Are there some settings in JAWS I could give a try? I have noticed
about a year before that Braille actually keeps up with the actual
cursor position, no matter if the cursor position changed due to the
usual position changers (arrows) or due to something else. At the time I
was unable to cause all Braille to be read out, which might be an
option, but it would be nice to have it working without requiring a
Braille display.
Any other helpful hints or info would be much appreciated. I don't know
too much about JAWS scripting in general, and I don't really have the
resources to embark on a full study of this since usually all works well
enough.
Regards,
Kerneels
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