[jawsscripts] Re: connecting accelerators in new DLGSelectItemInList?
- From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:04:36 -0400
Where can I find more out about the custom button DLGSelectItemInList?
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From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:10 AM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: connecting accelerators in new
DLGSelectItemInList?
> 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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