[jawsscripts] Re: Testing whether the {ShiftKey} in a function is really being pressed?
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:18:24 -0700
U tried a refreshwindow function?
On 3/22/09, Geoff personal <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Scripters.
> Another queery if I may.
> I have a situation where I've loaded a new FrameSet, into the jff/jfd's,
> with a bunch of OnFocus frames
> to handle a particular screen's tab order, but, of course, There's a timing
> issue going on, such that the frame whose events I want to fire upon the
> cursor moving/being inside it, is in this new FrameSet, and, of course the
> screen has to be already loaded, and the cursor moved to that point, before
> the FrameSet actually loads.
> This means that the Current field label on the new Screen, which I've got
> working via an OnFocus frame in the new FrameSet just loaded, doesn't fire
> properly.
> now what's weird is, pressing the shift key manually, seems to, flush,
> something, and make the proper ONFocus frame fire it's events as if the
> cursor had just moved into it.
> Yet, when I place that shiftKey in a function, either like this:
> {Shift}
> or
> I place that single line in another function and schedule it,
> neither one of these approaches, seems to emulate what I can do manually by
> hitting the shift key?
> and the annoyance is, that if this isn't flushed and read properly, when the
> user tabs once, instead of reading the next Tab field and just ignoring it's
> current one, it also performs the "flushing" type function, and fires the
> data in the frame being left as well.
> So, bottom line is, Can anyone tell me how I might test, whether using
> leftRight braces to pass the shiftKey in this way,
> is actually really activating/pressing it or not?
> When placing a
>
> SayInteger (NKey)
> statement , in KeyPressedEvent,
> to speak keystrokes as they are pressed, tapping the control or shift key
> doesn't emit any number, so I'm not even sure if this registers properly?
>
> Is there any other way in a function, to insure that the shift key is being
> simply tapped by itself, to provide the functionality I'm after?
> I can see a function here called TypeKey, but whenI try inserting this, it
> asks me for a "message constant containing the
> Keystroke Name?
> And, well I'm not at all sure yet how I might work out where I might find
> such a thing, hense my use of leftRight Braces to simply pass the key
> through to the application?
> and if KeyPressedEvent doesn't even register it alone as having been
> pressed, as it seems is the case, I feel a bit stumped on this one too?
>
>
> thanks so much for any pointers.
>
>
> Geoff c.
>
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