[jawsscripts] take2, instituting a find command across multiple pages of data?
- From: "Geoff personal" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:44:38 +1000
Hey mighty scripters.
I think I sent this one late last week, but didn't get any nibbles on it so
am trying again. if any kind soul could give me a hand instituting this one,
it'd be heaps appreciated.
Also, may I add one more queery to the top?
What's the bestest function for announcing only the text of a certain color,
from a string?
i.e. I do a couple of getLines() and concatinate them into a string, in
order to retain tab Characters which I need to remain so I can replace them
with commas for pauses,
and then I wanna say, let that string only equal text that's xx on YY color.
and then just speak that data out of the string?
I know you can use special optional color parameters on GetTextInRects, but
in this case I can't use that, because it strips out the Tab Characters
automatically, and I need functions that don't do that?
Thanks for any tips ASAP on that one, and if I may, here comes the repeat of
last weeks post, which I'm still very keen to implement on the last day of
the job! ah, feature creep. gotta love it!
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 10:49 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] instituting a find command across multiple pages of
data?
oh mighty > Scripters. I have only two days left here at the office of the
project at
> which I've been working for the past xx weeks, and I'd reeeeally like to
> implement one more feature that I was wondering if someone could help me
> with a bit?
>
I Got a situation where searching for a street number across multiple
> screens/pages would be rather desirable to have a computer-based method of
> doing, in that the sightlings can far more easily glance down a list of
> records and
> just manually flip pages till they find it, than the vip can.
>
> So, what I was wanting to do, was implement some iteration of jawsFind, or
> FindString command, that allowed me to:
>
A. have the user hit control+f and bring up a box asking what to search for,
> as in the jawsFind box or something equivalent.
>
B. have them type that string in to an edit box field for reception of it,
and hit enter.
>
C. for the script to look on the current screen, if not found, flip to the
> next page, pause a bit to insure settling, then look on that screen. if
> not
> there,
> flip to the next page and so on, until found.
>
> obviously implementing some limit/safety while count thinggy to stop at a
> certain number of pages etc.
>
> Then, if/when found, take the jaws cursor to the beginning of that string
> onscreen, then flip back to the left a certain distance and click in the
> spot
> which will immediately bring focus to that record for the user, such that
> my
> onFocus frame commands then kick in and read the appropriate data from it.
>
> Could such be done?
>
> I've started having a bit of a mess with this myself, but, ... well
> although I can do all the end part ok myself,
I've got such lame knowledge, that I'm even unsure how to stop the normativ
jawsfind
> box, from wanting to pop up another message/ok box thinggy, as an error on
> the first page when it can't find the string on that screen. As of course
> this is what jawsFind function is normatively supposed to do?
>
> But then wehn I thought about seeking to utilize the standard FindString
> function,
I realized I was additionally so knowledge-lame that I had no idea how to
make
> code that could prompt the user for the string to insert into that second
> parameter of the FindString function, to even start the whole ball
> rolling!
I have never made jaws pop up boxes for reception of user input before?
> If any kind soul could assist with anything here, be very much
> appreciated!
>
> I was initially gunna do this in virtual buffer land, loading maybe 20
> pages
> of data or something into the virtual viewer, and seeking to keep track of
> what page of data was what, utilizing some kind of variable or something.
> then if found in virtual buffer land search, which I knew would be faster
> than
> the more "live" method I've proposed above, and then try and go back to
> the
> live option and find the page, and then do the jawsFind onscreen. But I'm
> thinking now that the live method I've proposed above would be just a lot
> simpler and more straight ahead, not worrying about virtual buffer issues
> etc.
>
> As I say, if anyone could give me any tips on how I might implement, this
> would be just great!
>
> thanks.
>
> geoff c.
>
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