[jawsscripts] Re: connecting accelerators in new DLGSelectItemInList?
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:10:49 +1000
far out! your right! your totally right!
I've never ever heard that before.
Jaws even speaks the underlined letter now as one tabs about the buttons.
thank you thank you. that's fabulous!
I hope this encouragement to your amazing abilities to remember even under
yucky health duress, improves your wellBeing/HeadAche tonight. and I will
also Ask our friend if he might intervene in that department also.
Thanks again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:59 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: connecting accelerators in new
DLGSelectItemInList?
> I'll have to check, as this is all pretty new, & u might wanna check
> now, cuz it's late here & I'm wallopped. But I believe that can be
> done by putting an & (ampersand) sign in front of the letter u wish to
> underline, e.g. e&xit would underline the x & thus make alt-x the
> hotkey. I could be hallucinating, though, as I've done plenty of
> programming study over these past few weeks, & sometimes it all gets
> mixed up, especially when I'm hammered, like now. It's what I get for
> trying to alleviate a sinus headache w/antihistamine type drugs which
> I don't normally take.
>
> Explaining what you're trying to accomplish when asking questions
> about a script you're writing is always a good thing. Try to be
> concise about it & try to divide what you're trying to accomplish into
> small increments. Surprisingly, that gives u a lot more clarity
> sometimes as well as us.
>
> On 7/20/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Jackie,
>> but, hee hee, oh goodness! here I was thinking for once I was being
>> clear,
>> really concise, and non-verbose, and ... now
>> I'm asked for more detail! grrrr! hhahahahaha, lol.
>>
>> ok well, you asked for it, hahhaha,
>> basically I wanna use the DLGSelectItemInList dialog, with the new Custom
>> buttons feature in jaws11, which I've done, to execue various actions on
>> whichever given trunk or station number they first select in the main
>> listbox.
>> but Idealy I'd like to be able to make
>> ShortCut, alt+Letter keys, I thought they were called accellerators, but
>> this might be quite wrong, <grin,>
>> to activate them. and in addition, choosing what letters I'd like, to
>> assign to each button, which when pressed with alt, would execute them
>> rather than having to tab around to them and press spaceBar/Enter.
>>
>> I knew that the letters in these labels of fields in dialogs, are usually
>> underlined, to indicate to the sightling and to jaws, which letter it is,
>> within it's name that will execute it when pressed with alt, and I
>> thought
>> maybe if I could make that happen in the label for the Custom Buttons in
>> jaws, that this might activate such a feature by default within windows?
>> but, I didn't know how/if we could do that within the script manager?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:54 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: connecting accelerators in new
>> DLGSelectItemInList?
>>
>>
>>> Wanna be more specific & tell us what u need to do?
>>>
>>> On 7/20/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> anyone know how/if we can connect accelerator keys in the new jaws11
>>>> custom
>>>> button version of DLGSelectItemInList?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> it would be very cool if this were possible? if not BuiltIn, which it
>>>> appears not to be, would there be any way of me building this
>>>> functionality
>>>> with current functions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> geoff c.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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