[jawsscripts] Re: Preventing an MSAA object from triggering

  • From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:06:05 -0700

This is true. These menus are weird though, even when the JAWS cursor is not 
tracking the pc cursor, the same behavior happens on occasion. Even using BX 
to navigate the MSAA objects in the menu will automatically trigger the 
submenus to open.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 8:17 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Preventing an MSAA object from triggering


>I could well be wrong about this,
> but I thought that hovering the mouse over menus which contained submenus,
> was universally a method of causing them to automatically open?
>
> if you turn on the JawsWillFollowPc command, control+insert+NumPadMinus,
> then try and traverse menus, at least when I tried this once, the menus 
> with
> submenu items would always auto trigger and open by themselves before the
> user had pressed enter on them to normatively cause them to do so?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:28 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Preventing an MSAA object from triggering
>
>
>> Thanks, I think I've found a way to prevent it by keeping the mouse 
>> cursor
>> away from the menu when open. It looks like the menu items are only
>> triggered when the mouse passes over specific items, which is pretty
>> annoying.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Chad Foster" <chad.foster@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:18 AM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Preventing an MSAA object from triggering
>>
>>
>> > Don't know of a way to prevent it from opening while using the menu
>> > itself, but you can virtualize the menus via the User Buffer functions
>> > and have the menus presented virtually, where you access the submenus
>> > via link functions.
>> >
>> > On 8/10/09, Bryan Garaventa <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Does anyone know if this is possible?
>> >>
>> >> I've got an MSAA enabled menu within an application. When you arrow
> down
>> >> to
>> >> a submenu, the highlighting of the MSAA menu item causes the submenu 
>> >> to
>> >> automatically open. This occurs for every submenu option, as well as
>> >> nested
>> >> submenu items, all automatically as soon as the item receives focus.
>> >>
>> >> So, is it possible to prevent an MSAA object from triggering
>> >> automatically
>> >> from a JAWS script? I doubt it, but thought I'd ask anyway just in
> case.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Bryan
>> >>
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