[jawsscripts] Re: pesky damn combo boxes, revisited

From: "John Robichaud" <JRobichaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 11:46:11 -0400
That link for downloading Doug Lee's BX utility appears to be broken. Is
there another working link? 
John Robichaud

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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: pesky damn combo boxes, revisited

Chad:

Ok, been there, done that, & the only message I get is "object not found",
no matter what I do.

So, guess it's time for plan b, huh? Aint that just a barrel of fun!

On 4/30/08, chad.foster@xxxxxxxxxx <chad.foster@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Try Doug Lee's BX utility found at:
>
> http://users.visi.com/~dgl/bx/
>
> Once you install it, you want to use MSAA mode by doing the following:
>
> 1. Turn on BX by pressing INSERT+SPACEBAR 2. Switch to MSAA mode by 
> pressing apostrophe (') followed by M (M) 3. Place BX on the focused 
> object by pressing CTRL+F 4. Arrow up, down, right, and left to 
> explore the object hierarchy 5. If you find a relationship of your 
> combo box items, then it can be scripted using MSAA 6. If you are 
> unable to find your combo box items, then we'll have to think of plan 
> B
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Chad
>
>
> On 4/30/08, Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Chad, here seems to be the problem: the parent window of the combo 
> > box in question contains not only objects from the combo box being 
> > worked with, but others as well, & objects often have identical 
> > names. So trying to sort which object belongs to which combo box is 
> > gonna be a well, uh, b-word. Maybe I will be able to figure out 
> > which objects go w/which boxes, but the problem is that there are 4 
> > combo boxes--1 for soft synths, which is actually easy to figure out 
> > where they belong, &
> > 3 identical boxes that contain names of effects which can be chained 
> > together. These obviously have all identical names, so trying to 
> > figure out which names go with which is gonna get interesting, but 
> > I'll play w/it some more. Thanks for the suggestion.
> >
> > On 4/30/08, Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In short, James, no, but it'd sure make my life easier if I could.
> > > Chad, let me look a little closer at what u r saying here. This is 
> > > 1 of the most MSAA *unaware* apps I've worked w/in a long, long 
> > > time & also poorly written, e.g., combo boxes & radio buttons have 
> > > a couple different window classes (e.g., comboLBox & TComboBox) 
> > > even within the same program! I really think part of what's 
> > > happened here is that they've continued to add features over the 
> > > years but never revised the code to bring it into sync w/the new 
> > > tools they're using, etc. Having said all that, I'm not altogether 
> > > certain I'm intelligent enough to know how to do what u just said 
> > > were the app the most well-written in the world, Chad. But I'll 
> > > look at it some more & see if maybe I can't muddle thru.  I really 
> > > do wish I could find some decent materials & docs regarding 
> > > objects, MSAA, UI automation--whatever & all of the above. Any 
> > > suggestions from any1 welcome. I have downloaded both the windows 
> > > & MSAA sdk, but it seems as though they kind of assume u already 
> > > know what you're doing--not a good assumption when it comes to lil oal
me, that's a certainty.
> > >
> > > Frustrated.
> > >
> > > On 4/30/08, James Dietz <James.Dietz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Can't you just use alt+down to "open" the combo, choose item, 
> > > > then alt
> > > > +up to "select" it?
> > > >
> > > > James
> > > > On Apr 29, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Jackie McBride wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Ok, yall, as I think I explained in a previous post, I've got 
> > > > > a
> combo
> > > > > box which, when the arrow keys are pressed, not only give the 
> > > > > item focus but select it as well. The problem here is that, 
> > > > > when one presses a key, if the synth is not working or 
> > > > > whatever, u get a
> dialog
> > > > > box to that effect & then u gotta go back to the combo & 
> > > > > select something else. Real pita. So I tried collecting the 
> > > > > objects
> contained
> > > > > in the combo box into a list with dlgSelectItemInList. Works 
> > > > > fine until the item is selected, e.g., I'm havin trouble 
> > > > > matching the
> item
> > > > > selected in the list to the item selected in the combo box. I 
> > > > > was playin around w/a whole lot of stuff--SetCurrentItem, 
> > > > > (works intermittently but does not select), send message 
> > > > > (doesn't seem to work at all though perhaps I'm doing that 
> > > > > wrong), click object by
> name
> > > > > (says it works but doesn't), just trying to click it (object 
> > > > > can't
> be
> > > > > found).
> > > > >
> > > > > Any1 got any brilliant ideas? Appreciate anything any1 has to
offer.
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