Hello Les,
With your question, you just tweaked that script by finding that the wrong
function is being used to determine what window the text is grabbed from!
In this script, we created 4 variables of type string, to hold the 4
different amounts of available text items.
These variable's names denote what text they hold; "Char" holds the
character at the current cursor position; "Word" will hold the current word;
"Line" will hold the current line; and "Window" will hold the text in the
designated window--that window being designated by the window handle passed
to the function that we're using to retrieve the text within the window.
Here are the lines that assign the designated text, (designated by the
function used to retrieve that particular amount of text)
;These functions retrieve their particular text amount from the
; text at the active cursor position--whether that cursor be
;the JAWS, Invisible, or PcCursor.
let Char=GetCharacter()
let Word=GetWord()
let Line=GetLine()
let Window=GetWindowText(GetFocus(),FALSE)
Your question was what determines the window that the text is retrieved
from, when selecting "Current Window..." from the menu of this script. The
previous line shows the function
let Window=GetWindowText(GetFocus(),FALSE)
being used to grab that text, and the "GetFocus()" returns the window handle
of the current focused window. And here is where you found the possible
problem! The GetFocus() function is used to return the handle of the window
that the current highlight, or PcCursor may be on, and does not take into
account what cursor is active! Since the beginning subject of this entire
thread was "How to copy text at the JawsCursor...," the GetFocus() would
not necessarily get the desired text, unless the JawsCursor was routed to
the PcCursor.
What the function needs to do is get the handle of the window at the
*active* cursor, since the JAWS cursor and Invisible cursor may not be in
the same window as the PcCursor. To return such a handle, the
GetCurrentWindow() function should be used in place of the GetFocus()
function; that way, the GetWindowText(GetCurrentWindow(),FALSE) would give
the text in the window at the current active cursor's position.
So that assignment line should read
let Window=GetWindowText(GetCurrentWindow(),FALSE)
in order to return the desired text!
(The "False" parameter just tells the GetWindowText function to get all the
text, not just the highlighted text within that window.)
Once the text was written to the variables, and that particular amount of
text was selected from the menu, the following functions were used to write
the text stored in those variables to the clipboard:
CopyToClipboard (Char)
CopyToClipboard (Word)
CopyToClipboard (Line)
CopyToClipboard (Window)
Thanks for finding that possible oversight, and I hope I didn't confuse the
issue!
Comments, corrections and remarks welcomed!
Thanks,
Dennis Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: Les Kriegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 3:06 PM
Subject: RE: Copying From The JAWS Cursor
> Hi Dennis,
>
> How is the current widnow defined? Also, what determines this? Is the
> current window the entire screen, or is that based on a setting in the
frame
> manager or config manager? I know that in Frame Manager, there was a
> setting to set the window relative to current window or screen if I
> rremember correctly. Thanks.
> Best Regards,
>
> Les
>
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