[jawsscripts] Re: Scripting System Tray icons
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:46:33 -0400
I have found this script very useful! I have modified it slightly for my
taste. I wanted to have it report the standard Vista network status and the
status for my Dell wireless card. In order for my Dell wireless status to
show up , I had to do the following in the Taskbar Control panel:
1. Open the Vista Taskbar Control Panel.
2. Press Control + Tab twice to get to the Notification Area page.
3. Press space to uncheck the "Hide inactive icons" if currently checked.
This will enable the button in the following step.
4. Press Tab to go to the "Icons Customize ..." button and press space to
activate the button.
5. Arrow down the list until you hear a Notification Area icon that has a
behavior that you want to change. Aftr each icon, it will indicate if the
current behavior is "Hide", "Hide when inactive", or "Show". This behavior
is in a combo box in a second column of this list view. There is a special
trick hotkey that seems to work in this dialog to get access to this combo
box. If you use this special hotkey of, Control + right arrow here, it will
allow you to then arrow through the options and select "Show" and press
Enter. This will take you out of the list! For some reason, there is a
quirk in this dialog. The changes I made would onlry take effect if I
completely exited the control panel and entered over and over again to
change the behavior of one icon at a time! If I would press space on the
"Icons Customize ..." button again before pressing Ok and closing the
Control Panel, the special hotkey will not work!
6. Press Tab until you hear "System icons Network".
7. Press Space to check the "System icons Network" checkbox if not already
checked.
8. Press Tab until you get to the Ok button and press Space to save the
changes and close the Control Panel.
9. Repeat the above steps until all of the desired System Tray icons that
you want to aclways show are set to "Show" in the behavior column.
I adjusted the script as follows and placed in one of my default script
files. I modified the loop to continueuing through the System Tray icons
and adjusted the search strings and the Say statements.
Script NetworkStatus ()
;Based on the Script SayBatteryLevel ()
; Originally written by S. Dawes
var
int Index,
int iFound,
String STItem
Let Index = SysTrayGetItemCount ()
While (Index >= 1)
Let STItem = SysTrayGetItemToolTip (Index)
If StringContains (STItem, "SSID:") then
SayMessage (ot_status, "Wireless: " + STItem )
; Let Index = 0
Let iFound = TRUE;
ElIf StringContains (STItem, "connected") then
SayMessage (ot_status, "Network: " + STItem )
; Let Index = 0
Let iFound = TRUE;
EndIf
Let Index = Index - 1
EndWhile
If ! iFound then
SayFormattedMessage (OT_ERROR, "Wireless Network Connection status could
not be retrieved")
EndIf
EndScript
Don Marang
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rui Fontes" <rui.fontes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:30 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting System Tray icons
> Go to Panel Control, Taskbar and Start Menu, and uncheck the two check
> boxes
> saying something like Hide unused icons and Hide similar icons.
>
> Rui
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven Hicks(HICKSSM)" <Steven.HicksSM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 7:17 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting System Tray icons
>
>
> Hi,
>
> not sure if you can help any further, when I boot my machine up, for some
> strange reason, the Wireless network connection icon in the system tray
> doesn't seem to show up. I have checked and it is set up on the task bar
> to
> always show. If I go in to the task bar and arrow down to always show
> which
> it is on already then click o.k. for some odd reason, it then appears back
> in the system tray again.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Scholes" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Sean Randall" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:35 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Scripting System Tray icons
>
>
>> Try the following script (note that this only works if you have 1 active
>> wireless connection):
>> --Script Code Starts Here--
>> ;Based on the Script SayBatteryLevel ()
>> ; Originally written by S. Dawes
>> var
>> int Index,
>> int iFound,
>> String STItem
>> Let Index = SysTrayGetItemCount ()
>> While (Index >= 1)
>> Let STItem = SysTrayGetItemToolTip (Index)
>> If StringContains (STItem, "Wireless Network Connection") then
>> SayMessage (ot_status, STItem )
>> Let Index = 0
>> Let iFound = TRUE;
>> Else
>> Let Index = Index - 1
>> EndIf
>> EndWhile
>> If ! iFound then
>> SayFormattedMessage (OT_ERROR, "Wireless Network Connection status could
>> not be retrieved")
>> EndIf
>> --Script Code Ends Here--
>>
>>
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