[jawsscripts] Re: jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.

  • From: "Bissett, Tom" <tom.bissett@xxxxxxx>
  • To: "jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:57:35 -0400

Hi,  I am thinking that this can be used for finding text and trigger points on 
the screen.  My guess this is what they use for the convenient OCR and now they 
have made it available to us.  We just need to figure out how to parse it and 
implement what we want to achieve with it.
Could the string returned be used to display its content in the results viewer 
and from there we could activate buttons etc?
I haven't taken the time to play with it so I am just throwing some thoughts 
out there.  
Tom Bisset
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan Moisei
Sent: October 7, 2012 4:02 AM
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.

I don't know fs's intended use for this function, but I know how I might use it.
The screen xml output includes OCR text, if existent. It is marked as OCR in 
the xml. One can copy it, I guess one can also trigger OCR on a specific event 
and get the new text with this.
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From: Jim Snowbarger
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 4:55 AM
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.

Very interesting.  The next thing will be how to make use of this .xml 
information.
Basically, this is our equivalent of print screen.
If I understand, from this, you can get all text, including text color and 
attributes.  You don't get graphics, and don't know anything about window 
boundaries.

What is actually the intended purpose of this?  Anybody know?

One idea that comes to mind is that, if a client wanted to pass you a screen 
shot, they could capture this .xml information, and send it to you.  You, as a 
script developer, have some clever tool that decodes the XML jibberish, and 
renders it in some familiar form, a web page, or a virtual viewer, or something 
like that.
Does something already exist?  Or, do I feel a utility coming on.
Sounds like a nice addition to my JLS_utilities, and/or Doug's BX.

JLS actually has a means of collecting the window structure from a  client's 
machine, including window attributes, such as boundary coordinates, style, 
type, class etc, and even the text in each window, done of course only under 
the control of the client.  But, they basically create a big data file that 
they send to me.  I put JLS in a special mode where all the window navigation 
functions, GetFocus, GetPriorWindow, GetNextWindow etc, all consult the data 
file, rather than my own system.
The missing piece was color and attributes for the text.
This would supplement that.

Of course, we still don't have pixel colors in non-textual areas.  But, I'm 
getting the disturbing impression that precious information like that may be 
becoming harder to obtain.  ,sigh>

Anyway, back to the original.  Does anybody know the intended means of 
interfacing with the XML data?







----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 2:57 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] jaws14 public Beta2, enhancements in Scripting.


JAWS 14 includes a new scripting function for obtaining screen content in
XML format. For more information on using this new function, refer to the
JAWS 14 includes a new scripting function for obtaining screen content in
XML format. for further information see:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/documentation/scripts/scripting-info.asp

Short URL:

http://bit.ly/RFtrUd
Geoff C.

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