[jawsscripts] Re: Testing whether the {ShiftKey} in a function is really being pressed?
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:15:47 +1100
Hi Jackie.
Thanks for this suggestion!
hmmmm, Well, as it happens, I can't quite recall now! whether I've tried
that one or not!
I may have, but maybe not in resolving this particular issue, ... oh, wait,
yes I have, I remember now why I can't utilize that, because it sends things
into a loop if I do, for refreshing the window, in this case refreshes the
whole app, as it's a terminal emulation package with no unique Windows for
controls as such at all so far as I can see,
and, I've got stacks of StringContains conditions being watched for in
NewTextEvent,
which of course would run heaps when things like refreshWindow were done, to
run a bunch of checks to see which screen is present, and load the correct
FrameSet and set the Global variable for each screen that I've set up. So,
if I put a refreshWindow in any of these LoadFrameSet functions, that'll
just retrigger the loop and on and on it'll go.
<grin.>
So, I don't think th'ats gunna be the magic formula I need for this one.
I need something that isn't going to reload the frameSet, which I'm pretty
positive from my testing, is what's breaking the normatively reliable
OnFocus Frames I've got going for each TabStop, from working properly.
When I disable FrameSets from Loading, Refreshing does indeed happily
trigger the OnFocus Frame that I want to fire. But, ... yeah, it's working
out how I can make it happy and trigger, without doing that. That's the
trick.
And what's difficult is, 8 times out of 10, my manually tapping the shift
key, does bring the joy I want! it's just insuring that I'm realy doing it
from a Script now, that I want to work out how to do. and/or, to test that
it really is being pressed from inside my function?
Have you got any further ideas Jackie on how I might test for this? when it
doesn't seem to generate, on it's own, any integer in KeyPressed Event?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 4:18 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Testing whether the {ShiftKey} in a function is
really being pressed?
> 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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