[jawsscripts] Re: Pause versus Delay
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Doug Lee <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:06:34 -0500
That's helpful -- thanks. Could explain why the Delay calls were not
suppressing speech for me. Regarding Pause, do you think it waits for,
say, a sertain number of window messages to be processed by the active
window?
Jamal
On 1/1/2010 5:48 PM, Doug Lee wrote:
> Delay's time can be aborted by a keystroke according to tests I ran
> years ago. In particular, I seem to recall that typing a key makes
> the current Delay() call return immediately and all future Delay()
> calls do no delaying at all, until the keystroke itself is handled.
> Pause() always seems to pause regardless of whatever else may be going
> on. I have not messed much if at all with the second parameter of
> Delay().
>
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:34:01PM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> I know this has come up before, but I still don't feel I understand when
> to use which of these functions, and when to use the second parameter of
> Delay. I have noticed that sometimes Pause seems more effective then
> Delay at suppressing undesired speech. For example, If I temporarily
> disable speech with SpeechOff, type some keystrokes, Delay, then restore
> speech, sometimes I still get undesired speech seemingly no matter how
> long the Delay is, and even if I use True as a second parameter. In
> this situation, Pause does seem to suppress the undesired speech.
>
> Naturally, I want to minimize time delays with speech off, so I'd like
> to call whichever function is optimal. Can folks share the best of
> their understanding/experiences on Pause versus Delay?
>
> Jamal
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