[jawsscripts] Re: help coding HTML E mail messages
- From: "Desyree Vaughn" <desyree@xxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:11:07 -0600
it would be better i think if I could do the same thing that freedom
scientific did for outlook 2003 in its script files for the message window.
the outlook window has the same class and works without turning off the
virtual cursor.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Randall" <seanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:10 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: help coding HTML E mail messages
> Desyree,
>
> My initial five minutes looking at courier tells me that you can indeed
> edit
> with the virtual cursor off, as Willi suggested. However you can only
> read
> inbound male with the cursor active, as you've noted.
>
> I know you were looking at a Com solution to this problem, but there may
> be
> another way of doing it.
>
> The format menu on the menu bar isn't present in a read-only message, but
> it
> is on one you are writing. You might be able to use this to test how you
> want the cursor to be active or not.
>
> If you write a message with the virtual cursor off then turn the cursor
> back
> on to read it, the markup speaks fine. Of course it's impossible to
> select
> the appropriate text to mark whilst the cursor is active, but having
> virtual
> on is a useful review tool. Also, several options from within a read-only
> message require selection of text.
>
> On the whole, the UI seems very friendly and accessible, hotkeys are
> plentiful and the client itself seems quite responsive. If you can get
> over
> this hurdle I see no reason why Courier can't become yet another mail
> client, easily accessible with JAWS.
>
> Questions:
>
> Does anybody have code to detect for the presence of a menu? My initial
> thinking of WinGetText on the appropriate menubar (which isn't a standard
> class) might well work, but seems clunky. Is this a better approach than
> using Com?
>
> Sean.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Desyree Vaughn
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:30 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] help coding HTML E mail messages
>
> I am in the process of writing scripts for an email client called courier
> (formly known as calypso. This email client is for the most part
> accessible
> right out of the box except for writing html emails.
> If you compose an email in html you cannot write the body of the message.
> I
> need help as to how to code this so that I can write html emails in
> courier
> if I choose.
>
> Also currently it does not read html emails quite right either. it tends
> to
> think that you are editing the message instead of just reading it but I am
> pretty sure I can fix this with a setting in courier itself.
>
> currently all i have for a script is the start and the end. So if you
> could
> kindly help provide the necessary code and where it goes i will copy and
> paste it in the right place.
>
> thanks
> Desyree
> PS I had a system crash so I could have missed something if this was
> already
> answered.
>
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