[jawsscripts] Re: take2, instituting a find command across multiple pages of data?
- From: "Geoff personal" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:44:19 +1000
hi Paul.
oooooh! that doesn't sound much fun at all. thanks very much for answering
this/giving me the
headsup on this one.
<groan.>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Magill" <magills@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:26 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: take2, instituting a find command across multiple
pages of data?
> Hi Geoff,
>
> It is not possible to extract text from a string based on its original
> screen color as the color information is not stored in the string.
>
> It is only possible to extract text directly from the screen based on its
> color, as the functions that do this assess the color of each character
> before determining whether to add that character to the string that will
> be
> the result of the function such as GetTextRect when using the color
> options.
>
> To do what you want with the substituation of the commas may be possible,
> but would take a lot of work, as somehow you would need to pick up the
> section of the screen to retain the tabs, then pick up the text based on
> color, and mainipulate the result by comparing the 2 strings. Not a
> straightforward task.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoff personal" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 10:44 AM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] take2, instituting a find command across multiple
> pages of data?
>
>
> 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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