[jawsscripts] Re: ScheduleFunction: why does compiler complain?
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:01:11 -0700
Great minds, same gutter lol.
On 11/26/13, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> K Awesome Jackie and Andrew thanks for these suggestions, which actually
> sound remarkably similar in concept
> upon first flick through them both. which is all I have time for right now.
>
> Thanks so much again.
>
>
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> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 4:23 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: ScheduleFunction: why does compiler complain?
>
>
>> Geoff:
>>
>> The ScheduleFunction() takes 2 parameters, as follows:
>> 1) A *function name* that's to be called/scheduled; &
>> 2) The time interval.
>>
>> What I do in a situation like this is:
>> 1) Set a global variable, i.e., gDontSpeakCombo & set it to 0. Put a
>> check in your script, i.e.,
>> if !gDontSpeakCombo then
>> speak combobox() ;call a function to speak combobox
>> let gDontSpeakCombo = 1
>> endif
>> once the combo has been spoken, set it to 1.
>>
>> On 11/26/13, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Wondering if anyone can clear up a small mystery I'm having here.
>>> I know there's some deal about ScheduleFunctions, and what they will and
>>> won't accept, but I've just forgotten what it exactly is now, and I need
>>>
>>> a
>>> little straightening out. :)
>>>
>>> In an effort to reduce multiple triggerings in NewTextEvent with a
>>> specialized situation,
>>> Where I'm wanting jaws to check when a certain window class has appeared,
>>>
>>> at
>>> a successful Combo box activation,
>>> And when it does, to do two things:
>>> (a) get jaws to say Popup, just once, i.e. not repeat it every time one
>>> upDown arrows and the item you've left, and the item you're moving to,
>>> gets
>>> redrawn,
>>> and
>>> (b) speak the entire text of that comboBox window, just at present for
>>> my
>>> debugging purposes, again only the once.
>>> Eventually of course I wouldn't need either of those, just for it to
>>> speak
>>> the first highlighted item, and read the next one as arrowed to, as per
>>> normal.
>>>
>>> Now if I just put a line:
>>> SayString ("popup")
>>> in my if condition for checking for this combo box class window to
>>> appear,
>>> then it'll
>>> speak that for each item it initially writes into the combobox window,
>>> in
>>> this case 5 times, and so I thought Scheduling it, might be a way of
>>> eliminating that multiple triggering situation.
>>> However, when I write:
>>> ScheduleFunction ("SayString ("PopUp")", 1)
>>> The compiler doesn't like me, and will return, "unexpected word PopUp."
>>>
>>> So my questions are:
>>> 1. Is it the deal then, that you can't put quoted strings into a
>>> ScheduleFunction call like my above example?
>>> But, that you can do it, if the string text is already inside a
>>> variable?
>>> like:
>>> ScheduleFunction ("SayString (buffer)", 1)
>>> Which certainly appears to be the case. Does anyone know why? though that
>>>
>>> is
>>> rather an irrelevant question I guess.
>>>
>>> 2. Sometimes, when attempting to use ScheduleFunction calls, in a bid to
>>> eliminate multiple triggerings of something I want the user to hear,
>>> inside
>>> NewTextEvent, occasionally the lowest second parameter for
>>> ScheduleFunction,
>>> , 1, seems to eliminate the thing from speaking altogether. Whereas if
>>> there's a straight ahead wach for a string, then a
>>> SayString (buffer)
>>> it may speak it multiple times.
>>> Has anyone got any more sophisticated ideas for how one may get around
>>> this
>>> kind of problem?
>>>
>>> Thanks much for any tips.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Geoff C.
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