Jeff,
I'm not sure what you meant by "i could", but if you meant you could
register them as cursor keys, then, you don't need the new onCursorKey
event to trap them; registering them as a cursor key, you provide a
routine to be called when each key is pressed.
If I recall, you're not guaranteed that your routine will be called
before or after window eyes has handled the key, and I don't think you
can stop window eyes from seeing it this way; however, I've got one
application where I just want to speak some additional information when
an arrow key is pressed, and I wanted window eyes to do it's thing, and
so this worked out fine for me.
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
chip.ora...@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
________________________________
From: Jeff Bishop [mailto:j...@jeffbishop.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 1:25 PM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: Re: altering the speaking of arrowing through a listbox
...
I could yes, and then trap the events using the new event? Kind
of tricky :).
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Orange <mailto:cora...@psc.state.fl.us>
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: altering the speaking of arrowing through a
listbox ...
Hi Jeff,
I do this same thing currently in the MS Office VBA
script, to cause it to speak the list box which displays Intellisense
information.
When I wrote it I used onKeyDown and onKeyUp events for
each key I was trapping; I needed to do this to keep window eyes from
seeing the keystrokes.
Now I'd use the newer onCursorKey event, only because it
seems to be designed exactly for this type of thing; there could be some
side effect of using onKeyDown and onKeyUp that I'm not aware of.
If you don't need to hide these keystrokes from window
eyes, then couldn't you just register them as cursor keys?
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
chip.ora...@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service
Commission.)
________________________________
From: Jeff Bishop [mailto:j...@jeffbishop.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:41 AM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: altering the speaking of arrowing
through a listbox ...
Hello,
OK, here is an interesting one. What scripting
techniques would be best to alter the behavior of arrowing through the
contents of a listbox (up/down/home/end)? It is unclear to me what
strategy would be best here:
1. See if I can trap a MSAA event? I looked
with WEEvent and I am not seeing events firing for this current
application.
2. Use the new cursor handling logic? This
seems like it has the most promise? GW, what do you think?
Any other suggestions are sincerely appreciated.
Jeff
