[jawsscripts] Re: Searching menu structures for a particular menu item
- From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:02:15 -0800
You could also access menu items if you know a particular item's
resource ID. You can catch these IDs by either watching for WM_COMMAND
messages when executing menu items of interest or by hooking directly
into resource table through whatever tools, like resource hacker.
Bryan Garaventa wrote:
> This is copied from one of my prior scripts.
>
> SpeechOff ()
>
> var object o, int cid,
>
> string stv, handle gw
>
> {alt+o}
>
> Pause ()
>
> let o = GetObjectAtPoint (cid, GetCursorCol (), GetCursorRow ())
>
> o.accDoDefaultAction(6)
>
> Pause ()
>
> ; ... script continues with SpeachOn(), etc.
>
>
> The only way I was able to make this work, was by first manually activating
> the menu, so Doug is right, I believe it does have to be visible first.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Lee" <doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:05 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Searching menu structures for a particular menu
> item
>
>
>> Come to think of it, this probably won't really help much after all.
>> You can find menus and menu items in MSAA, but I don't think you can
>> activate a menu option without first making it visible on screen. I
>> believe the menuItem codes mentioned earlier in this thread, locatable
>> with WinDig, would allow you to execute menu items. The JAWS
>> SendMessage function should let you do that without AutoIt though.
>>
>> As far as sample code, there was some in the Skype scripts, probably in
>> SkypeUtil.jsl; but I don't think it's there anymore. I don't have to
>> do this very often.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:58:27PM -0500, Andy Borka wrote:
>> Hi. Do you have any example code that searches for particular menu items?
>> How do you deal with the top level menus in the menu bar (telling what one
>> is what)?
>>
>>
>> Twitter: www.twitter.com/sonfire
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doug Lee
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:50 PM
>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Searching menu structures for a particular menu
>> item
>>
>> It's a bit more involved than I can recall or fully describe here, but
>> here are the main ingredients I remember:
>>
>> 1. Get the menubar object with
>> GetObjectFromEvent(getTopLevelWindow(getFocus()), ObjID_Menu, 0, childID).
>> ChildID is a placeholder.
>>
>> 2. The menubar's items will be indexable by childIDs starting at 1,
>> so for "File View Window Help," "Window" should be o.accName(3). To
>> get its object, do o.accChild(3). You can of course search through
>> these with a loop that runs from 1 through o.accChildCount inclusive.
>>
>> 3. A menubar item has one child in MSAA: The pop-up menu associated with
>> it.
>> To get that, do .accChild(1) on what you got in the previous step.
>>
>> 4. The menu you now have has menu items much like the menubar did,
>> each with its own pop-up menu where applicable. Start again at step 2
>> to search deeper.
>>
>> Tip: JAWS now has functions that search MSAA object trees for names.
>> If this works for menu hierarchies, and depending on your needs once
>> you find something, that may significantly decrease the level of
>> effort required for your situation.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:37:38PM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
>> There is not a way to do this natively through JAWS, except possibly by
>> searching the MSAA hierarchy associated with a menu. I don't know how
>> to do that, but Doug Lee might ....
>>
>> If you are willing to install a free COM server, AutoIt,
>> http://AutoItScript.com
>>
>> includes the method documented below. Another approach is to get the ID
>> of the menu item of interest via WinDig
>> http://EmpowermentZone.com/wdsetup.exe
>> and invoke it with a PostMessage call.
>>
>> Jamal
>>
>>
>> WinMenuSelectItem
>>
>>
>> Invokes a menu item of a window.
>>
>> WinMenuSelectItem "title", "text", "item" [, "item" [, "item" [, "item"
>> [,
>> "item" [, "item" [, "item"]]]]]]
>>
>>
>> Parameters
>> titleThe title of the window to read.
>> textThe text of the window to read.
>> itemText of Menu Item
>> item(optional) Text of SubMenu item
>> item(optional) Text of SubMenu item
>> item(optional) Text of SubMenu item
>> item(optional) Text of SubMenu item
>> item(optional) Text of SubMenu item
>> item(optional) Text of SubMenu item
>>
>>
>> Return Value
>> Success:Returns 1.
>> Failure:Returns 0 if the menu could not be found.
>>
>>
>> Remarks
>> You should note that underlined menu items actually contain a &
>> character to
>> indicate the underlining. Thus, the menu item File would actually
>> require the
>> text "&File", and Convert would require "Con&vert" You can access menu
>> items
>> up to six levels deep; and the window can be inactive, minimized, and/or
>> even
>> hidden.
>>
>> WinMenuSelectItem will only work on standard menus. Unfortunately, many
>> menus
>> in use today are actually custom written or toolbars "pretending" to be
>> menus.
>> This is true for most Microsoft applications.
>>
>>
>> Related
>> ControlCommand, Send
>>
>> Example
>> Set oAutoIt = WScript.CreateObject("AutoItX3.Control")
>>
>> ' This will select File, Page Setup in notepad
>> oAutoIt.WinMenuSelectItem "Untitled - ", "", "&File", "Page Set&up..."
>>
>> On
>> Tue, 23 Dec
>> 2008, Andy Borka wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:35:46 -0500
>>> From: Andy Borka <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Searching menu structures for a particular menu
>>> item
>>>
>>> I have a particular menu structure that I need to search through in order
>> to
>>> get to a particular menu item. I know the text on the menu item I want to
>>> find but the placement of the menu items change depending on what "view"
>> you
>>> are on in the program. How would I go about searching for and then
>>> activating the menu item (or giving an error message if it can't be
>> found)?
>>> Twitter: www.twitter.com/sonfire
>>>
>>>
>>>
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