ok, thanks.
------------------------------ 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.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Smith [mailto:aa...@gwmicro.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 1:46 PM > To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com > Subject: Re: making an inaccessible app accessible with a script > > Chip, > > Yep, that's perfectly acceptable. If you know what type a > window should > be, you can set it's Type, and Window-Eyes will attempt to treat it > accordingly. That may or may not work, but it's certainly a place to > start. The only caveat is that reclassing, just like using > the reclass > dialog, does have the potential to blow things up. But > there's no way to > know if that's going to happen or if you're going to have > success unless > you try. So go for it. > > Aaron > > On 8/6/2009 1:40 PM, Chip Orange wrote: > > Hi all and especially GW, > > I have an inaccessible app (visual foxpro). > > part of the problem seems to be that everything is a custom > control, and > > they all have custom classes which are all the same, and > the styles are > > always the same, so trying to use reclass hasn't yielded any better > > results; it just reclasses all objects to be the same. > > I was wondering, if I wrote a script which dynamically > figured out what > > various objects really were, could it reassign their class > properties on > > the fly, making one a button, and one a listview, and one a > dialog, and > > so on? > > I'm not asking if that would stick permanently, I realize the script > > would need to be run each time the app started, or each > time a dialog > > opened; I'm asking would it help window eyes and would it > stop the app > > from running in any way? is this a valid idea for improving the > > accessibility of the app? > > thanks. > > Chip > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > 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.) > > > > -- > To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past > correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information > pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW > Micro Technical Support Team. > > Aaron Smith > GW Micro > Phone: 260/489-3671 > Fax: 260/489-2608 > WWW: http://www.gwmicro.com > FTP: ftp://ftp.gwmicro.com > Technical Support & Web Development >
