Jeff,
Don't panic Jeff <smile>. You can do that. I'm talking about the
ability to select a range. Only a subset of the IE DOM is full
Automation and the selection stuff isn't in there.
Doug
Jeff Bishop wrote:
Doug,
This is a bit concerning.
Do you mean that you can't get at a domnode object and evaluate the
content of that object (am I on a link, checkbox, edit box, select
box, radio button, push button, etc, etc)? Can you further explain
the limitation here?
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Doug Geoffray <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, August 08, 2008 9:56 AM
*Subject:* Re: State of drag and drop
Jamal,
Humm, the good news is you can do what I said. The bad news is
you can't do it in VBScript. The problem is not all of the IE DOM
is COM Automation. The part required to do this is outside of
Automation. So you would need a language that handles COM and not
just COM Automation. So this would require something like C++ for
example. Once things settle down we may take this one.
Doug
Jamal Mazrui wrote:
Thanks for that code.
I am particularly interested in browse mode selection. I do not know how
to do what you are suggesting with the DOM, am not aware of a GW example,
and would appreciate one.
Jamal
--Original Message--
Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Doug Geoffray wrote:
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:06:00 -0400
From: Doug Geoffray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: State of drag and drop
Jamal,
I'll let you dream up the UI to get the starting point and the ending
point in the script as this easy. Once you have to start and end point
just do:
mouse.position = startingpoint
mouse.buttondown mbleft
mouse.position = endingpoint
mouse.buttonup mbleft
The text is now selected.
So I would consider that very easy. As for browse mode, as you know,
there isn't a way to simulate selection and this will be resolved post
7.0. But you could do better anyway by selecting the actual content in
the IE window retaining all formatting etc. by bypassing browse mode. In
other words, you can get the starting line in browse mode and tie that
to the IE DOM, get the ending line and tie that to the IE DOM and select
everything in between. Again, if this were copied to the clipboard by
the user then they would have the full HTML content that could be pasted.
Doug
Jamal Mazrui wrote:
What might be the script code to easily simulate this? Would it work in
browse mode as well?
Jamal
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Doug Geoffray wrote:
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:04:25 -0400
From: Doug Geoffray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: State of drag and drop
Jamal,
No, there is currently no way to know. But of course this entire
functionality can easily be simulated with a simple script. In fact,
had we had scripting first this feature probably would have been done
with a script instead of within Window-Eyes.
Doug
Jamal Mazrui wrote:
Via the API, how can a script determine the state of the Window-Eyes drag
and drop feature? As you know, when this hotkey is pressed the first
time, it says "Mark." A second time presents a dialog with Drop and Mark
buttons, the default being Drop. Can a script know the current state
(whether a regular mouse drag and drop or a browse mode one)?
Jamal
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