[jawsscripts] Re: ScheduleFunction: why does compiler complain?
- From: Andrew Hart <ahart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:07:03 -0300
You bet! I posted my response only to see Jackie's and think, hmmm, I
think we were on the same wavelength there. *grin*
Cheerio.
On 26/11/2013 3:01 PM, Jackie McBride wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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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