[jawsscripts] Re: VMware Player
- From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:51:00 +0100
Yes I agree. The menu is accessible once opened; it's the bar itself. How do
I manually reclass a control, i.e., via scripting?
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Chris Hallsworth
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From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 5:38 AM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: VMware Player
> Hi Chris,
>
> I have started to collect info about the VM application and menus. there
> are quite a few built-in scripts and functions to work with menus. Just
> do
> a search for "menu" in the FSDN to get an idea. Functions like
> GetMenuName
> GetMenuMode
> MenuModeEvent
> MenuBarActiveProcessed
> and
> MenuActiveProcessed
> look useful once a menu is activated to get information and feedback
> about
> the status, mode and location in the menus. However, this is not really
> the
> problem in this application. They seem to work fine once activated.
> There
> are functions like
> ActivateMenuBar
> but I don't think this by itself will do anything different than pressing
> the Alt key. Perhaps a manual window classification like I previously was
> able to do with System Tray windows will help.
>
> I have not gotten much accomplished today. I was not feeling well and
> there
> was a bat flying around the room all night!
>
> Don Marang
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 3:45 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: VMware Player
>
>
>> Could someone please give me tips on making the VMware Workstation menu
>> bar
>> accessible? For example are there built in functions or scripts I can use
>> to
>> tell JAWS that it's a menu bar and that it should behave that way? Please
>> advise. Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Chris Hallsworth
>> E-mail: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Skype: chrishallsworth7266
>> Klango: chrishallsworth
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:18 AM
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: VMware Player
>>
>>> Yes that would be nice. I have not done too much with menus, but I will
>>> attempt to look into it as time permits.
>>>
>>> Don Marang
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 4:57 PM
>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] VMware Player
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> I'd like to have a go at creating some scripts to make VMware Player
>>>> more
>>>> keyboard friendly, particularly when wanting to use the menus. Any
>>>> starters
>>>> would be greatly appreciated. At the moment it works fine with JAWS,
>>>> however
>>>> you have to use the JAWS cursor to first find either the VMware Player
>>>> or,
>>>> if a virtual machine is running, devices. Once I've found that I just
>>>> click
>>>> on it and a standard pull down occurs and JAWS can read the menus and
>>>> associated dialogue boxes fine. So I would like to enhance the
>>>> accessibility
>>>> so that JAWS can quickly locate and click on the appropriate menus,
>>>> which
>>>> I
>>>> think are actually toolbars, according to the tutor message, using
>>>> keystrokes.
>>>> Thanks in advance for any starters.
>>>> --
>>>> Chris Hallsworth
>>>> E-mail: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Skype: chrishallsworth7266
>>>> Klango: chrishallsworth
>>>>
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