wwhere to store your jaws script is a very important issue. remember the shared settings area contain all the jaws scripts that come with the jaws program. these scripts will get over written when ever an update to jaws is applied. which in jaws 16 seems to be every couple of weeks. So if you had done a lot of work by adding things to a script you would loose it when the update was applied. furthermore, this area has a lot of script files which the majority of them you may never want to make changes to additions too.
so the best way to eliminate loosing youyr work, as well as having a shorter list of script files is to put the ones you want to work on into your own settings area. i would even suggest that your should put any new scripts you get into your own settings area as well and leave the shared settings area for the jaws program scripts. the other thing to note is that when you open up an application e.g. say wordpad and want to work on the script for that program use the jaws script manager which is jaws key plus 0 and it will by default list the jaws script file for that application and when you go to compile it it gets stored into your own settings area. have fun scripting everyone, and i look forward to further discussion on this issue. I've learnt a lot so far, and just thought i would pay it forward with a little knowledge of jaws programming that i've picked up. have a good day everyone. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 16, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Paul Martz via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are 3 reasons to add a script as a user setting (instead of a shared > setting), at least 3 that I can think of. > > 1. If you have more than one user on your computer and they all want > different scripts for the same apps. Seems unlikely. > 2. If your computer just has one user: You. In that case, it doesn't matter > if you add the script as a user setting or a shared setting. > 3. If you plan to move to a new computer someday, some migration tools make > it easy to copy your settings to the new computer. Some of these tools > aren't so great at migrating shared settings. > > In my case, I'm the only user on my machine, so I just add them as user > settings. I don't think I mess with shared settings at all. Lots of stuff > does end up getting added to shared settings (non-JAWS stuff), and I think > that happens automatically when various software gets installed. > -Paul > > >> -----Original Message----- >> >> I always put scripts into shared settings. It has lots more files than > 'explore >> my settings' ... and it works. It may be that both ways work, though. > Try it >> and let us know???? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Jfw mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com > _______________________________________________ Jfw mailing list [email protected] http://lists.the-jdh.com/mailman/listinfo/jfw_lists.the-jdh.com
