Hi,
You sound like you are coming from the DOS environment where row and columm
is significant. In Windows, you can only really think in terms of pixels,
or dot positions on the screen. This is because character positions may be
anything depending on the font size and style. Most windows fonts are
preportional unlike say braille where each character takes a fixed amount of
space, a preportional font means each character takes only as much space as
it needs. A line of the letter i will hold a lot more letter i s than a
line of letter M s. Similarly, fonts can be sized in both height and width.
In DOS, standard text mode divides the screen into cells, each one of which
can hold one and only one letter, thus the concept of rows and columns has
meaning but not under a graphical environment.
Hope this helps clarify this for you.
I do not know if this applies when programming in console mode, haven't had
time to experiment with that yet.
Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario
Home of the 24 hour snowmobile distance record!
-----Original Message-----
From: boris67 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: Does Jaws read cursor position?
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>Marsha,
>
>Thanks for you explaination. I am still wondering if there is some way to
>tell the row & column.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: MARSHA MACCHI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 3:43 PM
>Subject: Re: Does Jaws read cursor position?
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>> From my understanding of the pixel reading capibilities, it first tells
>you
>> what cursor is active and then reads the X coordinate and then the Y
>> coordinate. The Y coordinate is the last number to be read. The Y
>coordinate
>> usually has a bigger number than the X one.
>>
>> Marsha
>> At 08:01 AM 7/9/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>> >How does the pixel info translate into row/column cursor location?
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>> >From: Olga Espinola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> >Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 9:05 AM
>> >Subject: Re: Does Jaws read cursor position?
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>> >> Press Alt-Del to hear pixel info on active cursor, PC or Jaws cursor.
>> >>
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