[jawsscripts] Re: GetTextInFrame
- From: "GianniP46" <giannip46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:13:59 -0500
OK, I will have to read this a few times to digest it totally, but I do have
HSC connected and make great use of it. I also do use the FSDN, just
started with it though.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 11:10 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: GetTextInFrame
> Hi Gian.
>
> well, I also never worked out how to achieve with direct scripting calls,
> what can
> be done more specificly using menu/wizard style front end within frames
> manager itself,
> regarding grabbing text of only certain colors within the Frames Construct
> from within a script.
>
> so, what I ended up dooen to get around this in my work, was I started
> using
> another function called
>
> GetTextInRect ()
>
> instead. and then carefully worked out the actual absolute screen Left,
> top, right and bottom coordinates of that rectangle/frame, which of course
> make up the first 4 parameters of the GetTextInRect function.
> This is not actually quite as easy as it may sound, because when you put
> your mouse on a line of text, and mark the top left, and bottom right hand
> corners of the frame,
> Jaws Makes some smart adjustments/tweaks to those coordinates, such that
> all
> the pixels which make up the text, are properly included in the frame
> size,
> no matter what their height/font size might be.
> check out the positioning tab, in the Frames Properties, remembering
> though
> that they have been taken relative to application window boarders, and not
> to absolute screen boarders, which is all that Alt+delete out of the box,
> reports.
> usually though you can subtract 3 pixels each way, to arrive at an
> absolute
> coordinate, seems to be about standard.
>
> and so you have to insure manually that you replicate this, when you
> define
> your absolute screen coordinates
> e.g. ... ok this gets a bit complicated. and I don't know if you've got
> hsc
> connected to this scratchLive aplication or not. but it is critical if
> you
> wanna use GetTextInRect, that
> you get these absolute screen coordinates accurate, such that they
> properly
> encompass the text at that location correctly. In my testings here, I
> found
> that
> the leftHand Coordinate, could be left pretty much at the same absolute x
> screen coordinate that alt+delete reports, when your jaws cursor is on the
> first letter of the text of the relevant frame.
> For the top coordinate though, I've found that often, subtracting about 7
> pixels
> from the alt+delete Y coordinate readOut at that same spot, would often
> suffice for the top of the rectangle coordinate.
> For the RightHand coordinate, after taking the jaws cursor to the far
> right
> hand
> letter, or position where letters can be written, you might add, about
> 8 pixels to this figure, before plugging it into the rightHand coord of
> GetTextInRect.
> and for the Bottom, I'd look at the height of the Frame, in the
> positioning
> tab, and make a guestimate on that. because it can depend on how large the
> font is, of the text your talking about, as to the necessary height. the
> Frames manager,
> as I say, makes intelligent judgements about that during the definition
> process, so, the idea is to try and build your getTextInRect off that.
>
> thus, if the frame height was, say, 13 pixels high, then you'd add 13
> pixels
> to your top coordinate, to arrive at your bottom edge coordinate.
>
>
> Here's the fsdn take on GetTextInRect. I usually leave a 0 as the fifth
> parameter, and as it points out, the IgnoreColor, if I don't know the
> foreground or background color of my text.
> Do you have the fsdn and are you familiar with searching it for some
> admittedly terseish definitions of functions?
>
> Function: GetTextInRect
> Description
> This function gets text inside a rectangle specified by four points on the
> screen representing the top, bottom, left, and right boundaries of the
> rectangle.
> Returns
> Type: String
> Description: Text inside the rectangle.
> Parameters
> Param 1:
> Type: Int
> Description: Left edge of rectangle.
> Include: Required
> Param 2:
> Type: Int
> Description: top edge of rectangle.
> Include: Required
> Param 3:
> Type: Int
> Description: right edge of rectangle.
> Include: Required
> Param 4:
> Type: Int
> Description: bottom edge of rectangle.
> Include: Required
> Param 5:
> Type: Int
> Description: attributes of text to include. Use 0 to include all text or
> use
> a combination of attribute flags to only return text with those
> attributes.
> Include: Optional
> Param 6:
> Type: Int
> Description: color of text to include, use IgnoreColor constant for any
> color.
> Include: Optional
> Param 7:
> Type: Int
> Description: background color of text to include.
> Include: Optional
> Param 8:
> Type: Int
> Description: Whether or not to add line breaks or to get the text as one
> long string.
> Include: Optional
> Param 9:
> Type: Int
> Description: The prefered coordinate system in which the value should be
> returned This is only a recommendation and will not work in all places.
> See
> the COORDSYS_xxx constants in hjconst.jsh.
> Include: Optional
> Version
> This function is available in the following releases:
> PAC Mate 1.10 and later
> JAWS 4.51 and later
> Magic 10.5 and later
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GianniP46" <giannip46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 5:33 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: GetTextInFrame
>
>
>> ok, thanks I got this working now, but I only need text with certain
> colors spoken. I know how to do this in the frame manager, but can you
> get
> this to work with the GetTextInFrame Function?
>> In other words can you only get text with specific attributes?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Geoff Chapman
>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:57 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: GetTextInFrame
>>
>> hi Gian.
>>
>> I can probably speak somewhat into this one, but I just haven't been
> able to
>> make the time to do it properly! never enough time!
>>
>> but, in very basic untested form, which I realize is not how you've
> asked
>> for it, wouldn't you just wanna do something like:
>> define CrateName as a local or global string variable, let's say local
> for
>> sake of argument near the beginning of your script, after the term
>> var
>> to denote variable list, (though in all standard protocol you should
> really
>> probably call it,
>> var
>> string sCrateName
>>
>> ; (the preceeding lower case s, indicating that it's a string
>> variable,
>> ; wouldn't you then just do something like:
>> let sCrateName = GetTextInFrame ("MyFrameName")
>> if StringContains (sCrateName, "TextToWatchFor") then
>> ; do whatever you need.
>> EndIf
>>
>> something like that?
>>
>> however what I'm not sure about here is, and what I do keep insisting
> you
>> reeally need to work on getting down too if your gunna work with
>> frames,
> is
>> to insure that their validation criteria is accurate. i.e. that their
>> WindowTitle, or Class parameter, far more often the former than the
> latter
>> is problematic in my experience,
>> is not breaking the frame from working.
>>
>> gotta run. see how you go with this so far.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "GianniP46" <giannip46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "JawsScriptsList" <JawsScripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 2:57 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] GetTextInFrame
>>
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> > Can someone give me some sample code to get the text that is in a
> frame
>> that is already defined and have that text assigned to a string
>> variable
>> called CrateName.
>> > I am trying to check a frame to see if it contains certain text. If
> it
>> does, then I need to do something in particular.
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> >
>> > Gian Pedulla
>> > GianniP46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > LETS! GO! METS!
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