[jawsscripts] Re: chopping up block of text on Tab delimiters or via color? String monipulation,
- From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:26:31 -0300
Good evening,
I suggest that you look in the FSDN Under:
Scripting > Reference Guide > JAWS > Strings
HTH,
Everett
>
On 22-Mar-09, at 10:19 PM, Geoff personal wrote:
> aha Mighty Scripters.
>
> I wonder if someone might be able to assist me with some fancy string
> monipulation knowledge?
> I have a problem in a terminal emulation environment application I am
> scripting, whereby there's this whole 3 line block of helper text
> for the
> user , denoting the role of the function keys on any given screen.
> However of course, they don't have nice periods after each one, nor
> even
> commas, so speaking a GetTextInRect on the block of course just
> spiews them
> all out in one unpleasantly incomprehensible continuous stream of
> text.
> However of course on each screen, the length of each function key
> prompt/string of text which needs pauses inserted between them, and
> which I
> wish also to split up to place one below the other in the virtual
> viewer
> upon a double click of this key,
> alters! Such that I can't just successfully delineate things with
> simple
> static GetTextInRect functions.
>
> So, what I'm wondering, is, what other options might be available to
> me to
> do this?
> Now there are what Jaws identifies as, Tabs, sitting between each
> one, which
> I was thinking if I knew how to get functions to do something like
> this:
> take the block of text, then move along till you find the first tab,
> then
> chop that from the left and assign it to a string,
> then move along to the next piece of actual text, starting counting
> from
> there, then when you reach the next Tab, chop that out and assign it
> to some
> string, ... etc, I thought I could then achieve this.
> But, I've no idea how I might go about doing this? I'm not at all
> really
> adept yet at handling the return values of functions, and feeding
> them into
> new new functions
> as parameters upon which the next function acts? Which I'm fairly
> sure is
> what I'm going to be needing to be able to do, in order to achieve
> this one?
>
> Or, the other thought I had was to maybe delineate by color instead.
> All the actual text in the block, is CornFlower blue on Black. i.e, in
> integer land,
> 15765624 on 0.
> Whereas the Tabs in between each helper prompt string that I wish to
> insert
> pauses into and be able to deal with individually in virtual viewer,
> is the standard Lime Green on Black terminal emulation color. i.e. in
> integer land,
> 3201060 on 0.
> Though interestingly, even with Hsc ReadPixel Color command, I'm
> unable to
> find any pixels in my tab identified spot, that report themselves as
> that
> Lime green color, even though JawsKey+top row 5, reports the tab as
> Lime
> Green on black.
>
> Might I be able to utilize something which looked for color instead,
> to
> achieve what I'm after?
> What would people suggest might be the bestest approach for this.
>
> Thanks so much for any tips or exemplery code anyone might have time
> to
> throw up at me on this one.
>
> geoff c.
>
>
>
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