Re: wxCheckListBox

  • From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:26:07 +0300

Hi Jaffar,
I didn't compiled wxWidgets, but I just downloaded a precompiled version (Alien::wxWidgets) which I use with Wx perl module.
I've seen that the checkboxes appear in the list and they work, but when I arrow up or down the list, Jaws doesn't tell "checked" or "unchecked" or a certain unlabeled image.
If the list item is checked and I press Insert+Page up in order to read the current line, I hear "checked", but if the item is not check and I do that, I hear only the item label, and no "unchecked".
So, I can use fine my program, because I know how to find if a certain item is checked or not, but other blind users will be confused because they won't hear if a certain item is checked or unchecked when arrowing the list.
I can send you the code in perl if you think it is relevant, but I don't think it is, because it is working, but the problem is that the result is not very Jaws friendly.
But, do you know that the CheckListBox widgets from wxWidgets can be made accessible under Windows so they speak the checked or unchecked status when arrowing up or down? 

Thank you.

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: <jaffar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: wxCheckListBox
Hi Octavian. If you will send me your code, i can take a closer look at it and see if I can help. By the way, when you were compiling wxWidgets, did you enable the accessibility flag? You can do this in one of two ways. 
1.  remove the comment that says "enable accessibility" in wx.h
2. If you are building wxWidgets with MinGW, you can add the accessibility flag to the build command 
make -f makefile.gcc accessibility=1
or if you are using Msys you could add the flag like so
--enable access
to your other command flags
Cheers!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 7:08 PM
Subject: wxCheckListBox



Hi,
Does anyone know if and how is possible to create a list box with check boxes which is accessible to Jaws using wxWidgets?
I know that wxWidgets use some native Windows objects under Windows and I also know that the listBox with checkboxes is very accessible under Windows, but I couldn't make such a list accessible. 

Thank you.

Octavian

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