[jawsscripts] Re: To Script, or Choose Another Application?

  • From: Steve Matzura <number6@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:32:44 -0400

Express Burn wins!  Everything has a real control ID, very simple to
assign shortcut keys to read windows such as elapsed time.  Thanks for
the recommendations all.  I think E.B. will do the job for the client
and for me as well.

On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:14:11 -0400, you wrote:

>That's two votes for ExpressBurn.
>
>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:22:59 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>I use Express Burn from NCH Software. It's simple, compact, and accessible. 
>>http://www.nch.com.au/burn/index.html
>>
>>On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:10:01 -0400, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>> I am looking for a single (or pair of) program(s) to burn a CD or DVD
>>> in either data or music modes, but the program has got to be super
>>> easy and as close to fully accessible as it can possibly get.  I found
>>> some nice free ones from a company called DVDVideoSoft which almost
>>> fit the bill.  The problem with them are these:
>>> 
>>> 1.  The control ID's change!  Yes, they really do!  In fact, they are
>>> assigned to be the same as the handles for each physical control! This
>>> is easily worked around with an autostart event that maps the handles
>>> for the windows by going GetNextWindow and GetPriorWindow to find what
>>> I need and save the apppropriate handles.  All the controls that you
>>> can TAB to, talk very nicely.  The one control to which you cannot TAB
>>> is the window containing the space used on the disk, which changes as
>>> files are added and removed from the compilation as it is built.
>>> 
>>> 2.  The aforementioned window is skipped in the TAB rotation, so I
>>> thought I'd write a script to speak it with SayWindow.  The problem is
>>> that the static text that says "Disk space used" speaks perfectly when
>>> I press the hot key, the window that has the actual number in it just
>>> doesn't speak at all!  Should I abandon these approaches and get a
>>> different program, or is there something else I might do to make this
>>> silent window give up its data?  Remember, the two primary criteria
>>> for program choice are simplicity and accessibility.
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance.
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