Hi Chip,
In my errands today one of them was a stop at Walmart and took a look at
new notebooks. HP has a real good one in the $500 range and when Black
Friday at Thanksgiving comes they are half price. Last fall I picked up one
in that range and paid only $295 for it and it was a dual core, 4 gig ram,
250 gig hard drive media HP notebook with Windows 7, I had gotten for a
Christmas present for my grand daughter.
Now, probably the same thing will be this fall and will get one at that
time. The thing is, the price of a computer is so cheap now, getting any
insurance is very costly. But I don't know what you have on yours but the HP
is a pretty good deal for the one I saw today had a quad core and in the
$500 range. HP is one of the best for parts and such. Notebooks need experts
for repairs since there so tightly packed.
Mine is going to be shipped out tomorrow to EVAS for re-install. I asked
them to load Windoweyes and not Jaws; just in case removing Jaws left
lingering drivers that could be a possible cause. I have a copy of both
screen readers only because Jaws has all the stuff for Access Data Base and
I did not know scripting then. I have always preferred Windoweyes.
Hopefully GW Micro will replace the disk if something happens during
this process.
Thanks for the idea Chip. I could install the latest version on my old
notebook but that notebook has only 512 ram and a 18 gig hard drive. Not
much to work with there.
Sincerely
Bruce
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:22 PM
Subject: laptops
Sorry to hear that Bruce. My Dell laptop has been fine for many years;
can't say I think much of their software support policy though (which was
limited to only a couple of years).
Nothing seemed as well built to me as my original thinkpad built by IBM (or
as costly!); Lenovo's aren't the same.
It may not be worth it any more, but my home owners insurance company
allowed me to purchase a rider policy for my original thinkpad (which cost
me around $2800) for $75 a year. If anything happened to it (lost, stolen,
or just dropped) they would pay for it completely. If you buy an expensive
laptop, you could ask about this kind of coverage. I did collect on it once
after I dropped it, and it saved me $450 in repairs.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: bb [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 7:59 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Reading Status Bar in Notepad and Word 2007
Hi Chip,
Yes, when I did the scan, it did not have the collection issue you
discovered in 2003. Very easy to get and the reason why I added it to my
page_num routine since I do have the 2007 version and it works fine.
Did not do the color thing you discussed in the last scripting class
because my good old Del notebook died again. I have had it for a year and it
has died 4 times now.
EVAS is going to ship it back and start over again once I get it in a
box. But, dealing with a Del product is nothing short of a nightmare...
This fall I am going to buy my own and probably will last like the one I
am using now, 11 years and still working, including falling 18 feet off my
upper deck I built when resting it on the handrail and it decided to leap.
Falling on leaf mulch on the ground and still works...for 5 years since it
happened.
So I will be slightly out of commission for a while. This computer has
only 4.2 version on it...
Take care, Bruce
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 5:55 PM
Subject: RE: Reading Status Bar in Notepad and Word 2007
Thanks for doing all this Bruce.
It looks to me as if the 2007 status bar doesn't present nearly the problem
in understanding that the 2003 status bar does, so I don't think I'll need
to do anything with it.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: BT [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 12:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Reading Status Bar in Notepad and Word 2007
Hi Tom,
Thanks, I did it quick last night for chip since he did not have Word
2007. I first looked at what names were listed and 31 names came up for Word
2007 and 2 of them were for the Status Bar. When searching for that 2 word
name, with a space between, I came up with the same clip data for both.
Assuming that probably one child is for the first pain and the second one
for a split screen having 2 windows, I just chose the first one for now.
Having said that, I will look at your suggestion if I have time and see
if Word 2007 will come up with the same wtStatus results and works in
getting the collection for Word 2007.
All I was wondering about and going to look into is when can the second
status bar be used; assuming it is for a split screen and don't really know.
It was a quick solution for Chip's question and I gave him a list of all
the window names on the Word 2007 first screen that had no entries since the
word for status bar is different in each Office Word. I just posted it just
in case someone else wanted a quick page line number routine; Word 2007
numbers lines if you set it up to display it inside the setup section of the
menu. For the status bar only gives page numbers and word count; and maybe
more depending on settings.
I am sure that is why you mentioned to use that form and maybe it will
work for all of them, which it probably is true, but who trusts Microsoft
for being standard???
Having this may help in other future programs and searches...figuring
out the top level convention to get to children as you mentioned.
thanks Tom, when I get time I will test it out and see what else can
come up using this method.
Sincerely
Bruce
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: Reading Status Bar in Notepad and Word 2007
Here's a little more direct method to get a status bar when it's a
standard status bar window, as in Notepad. Note, in some programs it
will be a direct child and others it won't. So use DirectChildren or
Children as needed. You can find out quickly in the immediate mode
window. Although, if it is a direct child it will still be considered a
child as well. So check the direct children first. There are usually
many more children. So using DirectChildren will have to check fewer
window objects.
Set oStatusWindows = ActiveWindow.DirectChildren.FilterByType(wtStatus)
This will return a collection which may be more than one if it's an MDI
window.
Hth,
Tom
On 8/14/2011 11:21 PM, BT wrote:
>
> To All,
>
> There is more than one status bar in Word 2007 and the name is
> different
> than what is in Notepad so this is what I did to get it to speak the
> status
> bar in my Page_Num app to get the line and column number in Notepad and
> now
> at least the Page and word count in Word 2007.
>
> you have more than one status bar in Woord 2007 so do a loop and speak it.
> This is one of 2 methods to get the item number for the object in 2007 for
> it will not return an object until you know it's location.
>
> App Segment:
> dim objMainWindow, objStatusBarWindow, objResults
> set objMainWindow = activeWindow.overlap
> 'First Notepad:
> set objResults = objMainWindow.children.filterByName(
> "msctls_statusbar32")
> if not objResults is nothing then
> if objResults.count> 0 then
> ' Window Found!
> set objStatusBarWindow = objResults(1) ' where 1 is the location for
> the
> Status Bar object.
> SpeakStatusBar objStatusBarWindow
> Exit Sub
> end if
> end if
> ' Word 2007:
> set objResults = objMainWindow.children.filterByName( "status bar")
> if not objResults is nothing then
> ' Go through the collection of status bar objects.
> For Each objStatusBarWindow in objResults
> SpeakStatusBar objStatusBarWindow
> Exit Sub
> Next
> End If
> End Sub
>
> Sub SpeakStatusBar( oStatusbar)
> ' now speak contents of the object clips.
> ' First convert any text for easier reading.
> Dim txt: txt = oStatusbar.clips.clipstext
> txt = Replace( txt, "Ln", " Line ")
> txt = Replace( txt, "Col", " column ")
> txt = Replace( txt, ",", " ")
> Speak txt
> End Sub
>
>
