minitab 15 ... It will be a aparently pretty hard application to script .. Your messages still are with strange characters. Marlon 2008/5/29, Sean Farrow <sean.farrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi marlon, which version, I know I have to use this, so any info would = > help.=20 > Sean. > > -----Original Message----- > From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx = > [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marlon Brand=E3o = > de Sousa > Sent: 29 May 2008 20:21 > To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [BULK] [jawsscripts] Re: making menu bar accessible > Importance: Low > > Hello, > I tried to assign the black on navy gray to foreground and background = > colors, but now jaws reads a lot of things much like if the all mode = > (ins + s) was active .. > Sean, your message is with several strange characters which makes its = > understanding hard .. > The app is minitab. > If you guys could explain me how these things related to color = > assignments work it would be cool. > Marlon > > > 2008/5/29, Trouble <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Try activating the menu and move to a item in the menu. then rout jaws = > >> to pc and make sure your on that item. Now hit insert + f2, and go to=20 >> custom highlight assign... >> Let it pick the colors and see if that reads the menu items now. >> >> At 02:47 PM 5/29/2008, you wrote: >>>Hello all, >>>I am scripting an application and trying to make the menu bar=20 >>>accessible. Its current behavior is the following: >>>If I press alt + f I hhave access to the items in the file menu. This=20 >>>same statement is true to all of the other menus in the menu bar. >>>If, however, I press only the alt key to give me access to the menu=20 >>>bar nothing happens. >>>If I use the activateMenuBar() function, I am placed in the menu bar,. >>>I can right and left arrow through the menus, but jaws won't speak the = > >>>name of the currently selected menu, although if I press the down=20 >>>arrow I am able to hear the items of tthat menu. >>>So let's supose I have three menus in the application, file edit and = > view. >>>If I press the alt key nothing happens. >>>If I press alt+f I am successfully able to access the file menu items, = > >>>such as open, close and save. >>>if I use the activateMenuBar scripting function, I am placed on the=20 >>>menu bar, but jaws doesn't speak the currently selected menu. >>>If I, for example, after placed in the menu bar, press the right arrow = > >>>once, jaws doesn't speak nothing, but if I press down arrow, I have=20 >>>access to the items of the edit menu, such as copy and find, so I know = > >>>that the right and left arrows are in fact selecting menus in the menu = > >>>bar, the only problem is the miss of jaws feedback. >>>This said, it's a common problem that I found in more than one=20 >>>application, and I have no idea about how to fix this. VMware servver=20 >>>has this problem also, and this feature is missing in ty scripts,=20 >>>although I am scripting at the moment a different application Do you=20 >>>know how can I make jaws read the menu bar correctly? >>>Thanks, >>>Marlon >>> >>> >>>-- >>>When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just=20 >>>stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for=20 >>>free." >>>Linus Torvalds >>>__________ >>>View the list's information and change your settings at=20 >>>http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >>> >>>__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus=20 >>>signature database 3145 (20080529) __________ >>> >>>The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>> >>>http://www.eset.com >> >> Tim >> trouble >> "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with = > substance." >> --Sam Brown >> >> Blindeudora list owner. >> To subscribe or info: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/blindeudora >> >> __________ >> View the list's information and change your settings at=20 >> http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts >> >> > > > -- > When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare = > at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." > Linus Torvalds > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at = > http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > -- When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." Linus Torvalds __________ View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts