From:

 Chip Orange

Subject:

 RE: class 15 example 3

Date:

 Thu, Jun 16, 2011 10:03:27 am

Right you are Steve; thanks again.

Chip


-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Clower [mailto:steve@gwmicro.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 8:09 AM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: Re: class 15 example 3

Chip,

Just as an FYI, you can preceed instructions with the @ symbol to cause the
previously active window to regain focus while you're in Immed. Once the
instruction executes, Immed resumes its place in the foreground.

HTH,
Steve



On 6/13/2011 6:16 PM, Chip Orange wrote:

thanks Jeff.
I had my own troubles with this one though; let me warn everyone: be

careful trying this one from inside the immediate app, as the
immediate window itself can block the window you're trying to work

with. at that point, there's really no telling what line (or any of
the text methods will return) when they're blocked. they could return

something valid, or not. and use of the WECursor instead of the mouse
cursor makes no difference if the window is blocked by another.

Chip

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*From:* Jeff Weiss [mailto:jnweiss@lwsb.org]
*Sent:* Monday, June 13, 2011 4:29 PM

*To:* gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
*Subject:* RE: class 15 example 3

Sorry Chip!

I found my mistake-and example 3 works just fine!

When all else fails, read the instructions very carefully!

Jeff Weiss

*From:*Jeff Weiss [mailto:jnweiss@lwsb.org]

*Sent:* Monday, June 13, 2011 2:49 PM
*To:* gw-scripting@gwmicro.com

*Subject:* class 15 example 3

I can't get example 3 to work.

I put it in a function with a hotkey and added

Speak sText which I thought should get the current line to speak.

Here is the script:

' OverLapLine

Dim myHotkey : Set myHotkey > Keyboard.RegisterHotkey("Alt-Control-Shift-I","OverLapLine")

' Example 3:

Function OverLapLine()

dim sText

dim oMonitorPosition, oText

dim lineClips

Set oMonitorPosition = WECursor.Position ' property returns x and y
screen coordinants

Set oText = Text

' A copy of the Text root level object is made, into the oText variable.

This is done

' because some of the methods of the Text object keep track of data
(such as the last

' position you used as input to one of it's methods),so that they can

then implement

' functionality such as "previous line". This requires the object to
be able to modify

' itself to store these values, and in such cases, if you don't make a

copy of the

' object (which your script then owns), the copy of the object owned
by WE will not

' allow your script to modify it; therefore, functionality such as

"previous line"

' will not function properly, as the previous position will not be
saved. The MSAAEventSource

' is another such object which may require you to make a copy of it in

order to use

' it fully.

set lineClips = oText.Line(oMonitorPosition)

' the line method actually returns a clips object, and one property of
the clips object

' is the clipsText string, which contains all of the text in all of

the clips, concatenated

' together into one long string.

sText = lineClips.ClipsText

Speak sText

Sleep 200

End Function

Jeff Weiss, CVRT

Rehabilitation Teacher

Lions World Services for the Blind

2811 Fair Park Blvd.

Little Rock, AR 72204

http://www.lwsb.org

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impaired for careers and independent lives.

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