>I am surprised so many people are making this more difficult than it
>needs to be. Why are you using special keys in combo boxes? You can
>just arrow up and down in them without doing anything special.
Actually, this is sometimes not true. First of all, Alt+Up and Down Arrows
in combo boxes are Windows standard keys. The special keys are the JFW read
by sentence scripts. In hindsight, it was a pretty poor choice to put these
special scripts on the standard Windows combo box keys. It is true that by
pressing the down arrow first the navigation of certain combo boxes seems to
be enabled, though I'm not sure whether this is an artifact of JFW.
But sometimes it's really hard to arrow in combo boxes. In Juno, for
instance, there's a folder combo box, but every time you arrow in either
direction you automatically tab to the message view panel. You have to
shift+tab for every cotton picking folder you don't want, and some of those
folders take a LONG time to open when they have lots of messages in them. I
solved this by automatically opening the combo box whenever it has focus.
this allows us to arrow more reliably with the PC cursor (at least at
times), and very reliably in the dropdown listbox using the Jaws cursor.
So, you can use just plain arrows if they work. Sometimes you'll be
successful.
Lee
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