[jawsscripts] settingFocus or moving JawsCursor to, a specific child window?
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:51:57 +1100
Hello Mighty Scripters.
another simple greeny question, but, other than asking up here, I wasn't
even sure where else I might look to anser such a question.
But, I wished to understand
How exactly might one most efficiently either move JawsCursor to, and click
in to change Checked status,
or alternatively setFocus to, and just doing a {Space} once there to achieve
the same thing,
a specific set of child windows in a dialog, whose controlID's seem to
remain constant and static each time it's opened?
I've got a dialog with about 6 child windows, all checkBoxes, that appear to
me to have nice static controlID's, and I'm wanting to ascertain the
methodology for most performance efficiently altering all their unchecked
states, which they are upon entering this dialog, to checked ones.
I've just never before tried to do something like this,
using what I realize is the professional, "window related back end," way of
approaching the task,
and I'm just a bit stumped as to exactly how to start.
I could of course, solve it by just doing multiple TabKey Presses, and
SpaceKey presses inside LeftRightBrace characters, But, I'm pretty certain
this would not be the most performance efficient/elegant way to accomplish
this?
And I'd like to try and advance my knowledge of how I know you professionals
do this, by the fancy process of queerying the environment for the correct
window related information, to get handles for etc. which has, to date,
remained just a deep mystery to me.
Would any kind soul have time/energy to assist?
or, direct me as to where I might learn to achieve such a thing?
Since SetFocus, and many other similar commands, require the handle of the
Window they are to operate on,
I can dimly se the methodology must have something to do with first setting
a handle variable in the script, like
var
handle hwnd
and then, presumably when the dialog in question has been opened with a
control+L keystroke in Braces,
doing something like
let hwnd = GetTopLevelWindow () ; ...
But I just can't work out how to code things from there,
and if you already know the bunch of control ID's of each window you wish to
move to, and click in? or setFocus in etc?
any tips most warmly appreciated.
thanks.
geoff c.
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