Below is a description of the two types of Window-eyes windows, taken from the Window-Eyes 7.1 Manual. I'll admit this information is difficult to find in the Manual for 7.5 beta. Let us know if you need further clarification on the two types of windows.
12.1: The Basics Window-Eyes Windows Not to be confused with Microsoft Windows, Window-Eyes user windows are user definable, rectangular portions of the display screen. You define them in terms of coordinates relative to the active window. For example, a window defined as the full active Window would have a left edge 0 pixels from the left edge of the active window, 0 pixels from the top edge of the active window, 0 pixels from the right edge, and 0 pixels from the bottom of the active window. As the active window is resized or moved, Window-Eyes user windows adjust to accommodate the changes. Two Kinds of Windows Window-Eyes has two kinds of windows, standard and hyperactive. Standard user windows are for reading portions of the display screen while ignoring other portions. They can be set to any size, from one character to the entire display screen. You can read the contents of any of the first twenty standard windows with the press of a hot key. Windows 0 through 9 can be read with ALT-0 through ALT-9. Windows 10 through 19 have their hot keys undefined by default. Any of the 50 standard windows can be read with the Any Window hot key, undefined in the default Window-Eyes speaking environment. Though fifty standard user windows are available, few speech-access users ever need to use all, or even most of them. A bit more complicated than standard windows but no less important, hyperactive windows help automate Window-Eyes. Once set, a hyperactive window watches constantly for user-specified changes on the display screen and then instructs Window-Eyes to carry out some pre-selected task. For example, a hyperactive window might be set to watch for any change on your application program's status line and then instruct Window-Eyes to read the line. Ordinarily located at the very bottom of the application window, a status line is a line of information about the status of a program where the cursor is in a document, the name of the currently open file, etc. Meanwhile, another hyperactive window might be set to watch for a certain color to pop up, and then trigger Window-Eyes to beep or maybe make some announcement. -----Original Message----- From: Davy Cuppens [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 4:58 PM To: Dave bahr; [email protected] Subject: Re: user windows, what are they and how do I use them? Hey Dave I must admid you are a bit right here! I have understanding problems too, the section is a bit theoretic language but tells few about how to practise. Greetz Davy -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Dave bahr Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: user windows, what are they and how do I use them? Hi, does anyone have a good guide to WE's user windows and how they work? Reading the manual just tells me what the dialogues for them have in it, but not how they work, their function, what each kind does. I'm trying to configure that Everything program that was recommended to me last week. Great program, but having some troubles reading it. I admit I know nothing about user windows, so the jargon in the manual is still another language to me. I can tell you what a german augmented sixth chord does in a Brahms sonata but not what a hyperactive window is. Anyone got any suggestions? -- thanks, Dave C. Bahr If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3492 - Release Date: 03/08/11 12:49:00 If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
