[jawsscripts] Re: help coding HTML E mail messages
- From: "Desyree Vaughn" <desyree@xxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:09:09 -0600
I have also tried turning off the virtual cursor and it does work that way.
----- 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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