I'm impressed by the power of the JFW 3.2 scripting language. I had not
realized, for example, that listboxes can be created and the index of the
item chosen returned to the script for further processing. The discussion
about creating clipboard capabilities with scripts made me wonder whether
it was possible to present an editbox to the user (similar to Vocal-Eyes)
by which one could type whatever character should be used to separate
blocks of text appendes to the clipboard variable. I read the entire
builtin.jsd file to see what controls could be created by scripts, and
found that at this time, editboxes cannot be created. Evidently,
listboxes and messageboxes are the only controls presently supported by
scripting.
Thus, I'm wondering what controls would be useful to suggest to HJ for
inclusion in the scripting language. It seems that a simple edit box
would be a worthwhile addition. The function might be called EditBox()
and return the string entered by the user or perhaps a code if Escape was
pressed. Arguments to the function could include a default strong to be
presented in the editbox and a number indicating the maximum width of a
string the user can enter.
What do others think?
Regards,
Jamal
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