Wow! what great information Lloyd. I might play with that some but for now just making my cells big enough to hold the controls and specifying the absolute property reads everything well. I just wanted to keep it simple.But there are allot of DataGridViews in third part apps that might be read better with those techniques.
Thanks, sounds like you are a pro in that arena. Rick USA----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:53 AM Subject: RE: Tips on laying out forms using Visual Studio 2008
When, as ou cursor through a cell, Window-Eyes dings a lot, it may mean thatthe line you are on has been divided into several clips. Highlighting asingle letter might also cause this, but I would guess that after you draw acell, an extraneous vertical line gets drawn through it, at leasttemporarily. Try Insert-backslash to redraw the screen and see if it cleans up. Also try moving the mouse pointer or WE cursor by clips using Insert-7,-8 or -9 on the numeric pad. Knowing that W-E thinks the cell was dividedinto smaller pieces will perhaps give you new information to work with. Orit may just mean that the off-screen model isn't accurate enough. Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, Maryland Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls-----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind- bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ricks Place Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:03 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Tips on laying out forms using Visual Studio 2008 Hi Inthane: There are some things I found at the implementation level but I was waiting to hear back from Chris. For one thing, when defining the cells I found thatspecifying the cell size as absolute and specifying a pixal size read wellwith windoweyes where specifying it as a percent or anything else did notread well all the time. When specified as a percent one of the boxes, even though I attempted to make them large enough, would not always read what I would type in. Sometimes it read a couple of letters then ping, continuingto hit the right cursor key would then read a little more and ping again and so forth - not sure why exactly. It might not happen with JAWS but hay, I use Windoweyes so the Absolute size cells work well with properly sized controls in them and I'm a happy camper. If Chris posts again I will tell him how to position and size the TableLayoutPanel and a couple of cells and controls like a label and textbox so they read nicely. Might have someone do a jaws test to see if we can use the cell percent size allocation as well. I do like using the TableLayoutPanel now that it works, much faster than positioning by the numbers for every control. Rick USA__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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