[jawsscripts] Re: Preventing an MSAA object from triggering

  • From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:42:38 +1000

bizzarre!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Garaventa" <bgaraventa11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:06 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Preventing an MSAA object from triggering


> 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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