[jawsscripts] Re: Code to enable user to feed FindString with desired text.
- From: "Geoff personal" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:41:46 +1000
Man! Sure is! thanks a bunch Sean!
"That's exactly what I needed to know!
Thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Randall" <seanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:41 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Code to enable user to feed FindString with
desired text.
> Geoff,
>
> The function you're after is InputBox. You can specify a title and text
> for
> the dialog and it will put whatever the user types into a string (which
> can
> then be used with FindString, naturally)
>
> The ExMessageBox function lets you pop up message boxes with alternate
> buttons "yes, no, cancel, continue" etc - so you may want to consider
> using
> that - for instance if your script has searched a few screens, you might
> want to the ask the user if they'd like to wait while you perform a more
> extensive search.
>
> Hope that's helpful,
> Sean.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Geoff Chapman
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:54 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Code to enable user to feed FindString with desired
> text.
>
> mighty Scripters. could anyone possibly give me a code example of how I
> might make the FindString command, become accepting of external user
> Input?
> like how I could put things in my script so that when the key was hit, it
> pops up some user interactive dialog box with an edit field, into which I
> could ask them to type their desired string to find, then press enter, and
> it would feed that back into the standard FindString function within a
> script?
>
> thanks heaps for any suggestions/function names/code examples as to how I
> might accomplish this?
> the builtin JawsFind function isn't gunna do it for me, because it keeps
> wanting to pop up errors if the string cannot be found on one single
> screen,
> and I need my script to ssearch through multiple pages/screens worth, and
> for me to be able to then generate my own user seeable error if not found,
> presumably using the MessageBox function?
>
> thanks heaps.
>
> geoff c.
>
>
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