[jawsscripts] Re: How to read bottom line of string only?
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 21:25:59 -0700
Geoff, the double backslash is when an actual backslash is required,
as per a filename, e.g., c:\\golf. (note it's double, if your
punctuation isn't on). The backslash is an escape character & is used
in front of things like quotation marks, apostrophes, &, yeah,
backslashes!
On 5/18/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yep that's right Soronel.
> Ok cool, Thanks very much for this.
> That's AWESOME.
>
> it seems to work!
> thank you thank you.
>
> I only used "\n" and it seems to be doing the trick?
> I thought though, that there was some talk of you having to use two
> backslashes in some instances or something? what was I mixing that up with
> do you think?
>
>
> thanks very much for that snappy response also Soronel eh..
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:23 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How to read bottom line of string only?
>
>
>> Windows controls generally need a \r\n pair. (certainly the edit and
>> rich text box controls do).
>>
>> StringSegment() looks like it could do what you're after (basically
>> the last line of a multi-line string, right?).
>>
>> On 5/18/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> HI Scripters. I wish to work out, from a bunch of text in a frame, how I
>>> can string monipulate such that I can read only the bottom line of a
>>> stack,
>>> which in this case will be the last call put on Hold, and which the
>>> keyboard
>>> focus will thus operate on when HoldRetreave is pressed from within this
>>> telephony interface application I'm scripting for? I know it must probly
>>> have something to do with grabbing the whole MultiLine string of the
>>> text
>>> in the frame, and somehow getting jaws to search from the right hand end
>>> of
>>> the string, backwards along the bottom line, until it reached a
>>> newLine/Carriage return character, then chopping everything from their to
>>> the left, returning the remainder botttom line? but, I'm just a bit
>>> fogged
>>> as to how to exactly code this type of funcionality? Could anyone steer
>>> me
>>> on the right path here? and, is it a "\r" or "\n
>>> that I'd be looking for here? and is it double backslash that you have
>>> to
>>> enclose in quotes when looking for one of these? ive just forgotten
>>> somehow.
>>> thanks so much for any pointers/info.
>>>
>>> geoff
>>>
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