Yes, I like this idea and was about to suggest it myself. It has
applications where JFW will not track a caret in nasty screens which
require input or where scripting is too difficult, (eg entering comments in
Excel).
I envisage the function to be as follows:
string EditBox(default_string, title, maxChars)
the box would present an edit field, an ok button and a cancel button. If
the cancel button was pressed, the function would just return an empty string.
Joe.
At 12:30 20/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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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Joseph Dunn
Adaptive Technology Specialist
Royal Society for the Blind of South Australia Inc.
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