Hi Everyone,
I would hope that we should never have to pay for scripts.
If I can ever learn how to write scripts, I would give them away freely.
Many people such as myself, can't afford to pay for scripts.
Just my thoughts.
Pat Ferguson
At 03:56 PM 1/4/2009, you wrote:
I finally, sort of, made the switch to WE 7.01. I immediately
started thinking about ways to make my work faster, more efficient,
and more productive by using scripts.
I had actually become rather good with JAWS scripts. After plowing
through a tutorial on Visual Basic and the Window-Eyes Help system
on scripts, I'm beginning to doubt whether scripting will make me
more productive -- at least if I have to write the scripts myself.
I went to Script Central and found some nice scripts. I particularly
like the "Append to Clipboard" script. There were lots of cute
scripts, but not all that many productivity-enhancing scripts. Of
course, this could all be a function of the way I work, but II'm
guessing there are others out there who wuld rather do their jobs
than learn VB Script and wuld even pay for productivity-enhancing scripts.
Here are a few examples:
Jump to Element in Word:
WE already provides a nice facility for jumping to the next revision
(in track changes), the next bookmark, the next comment, and
so-on. Why not a function to jump to the next heading or the next
table? Word itself offers this functiion, sort of, in the "Go To"
menu, but it is decidedly awkward. I shouldn't think a script would
be that hard to write.
Style Picker:
Most of us who learned word processing with WordPerfect (or earlier
programs) still rely on direct formatting, even though every Word
trainer decries this practice, encouraging us to use styles. There
are some handy styles built into Word, and I have created Word
templates with many, many fore. The Word short-cut key is
control-shift-S. That, of course, conflicts with the "read status"
command in Window-Eyes. Even when using the bypass key and
following it with the control-shift-S command, what one gets is not
a list box of styles in alphabetical order that one can scroll down
or jump to with a key. Instead, one has to press Alt-O (for format)
go to "styles." Even then, the listing is decidedly uncooperative,
not readily responding to letter jump commands. Then, when one has
applied the style, the nasty task pain remains on the screen. That
can drive you nuts until you realize what's going on and close
it. I would pay for a style picker script that let me press a key,
scroll down a list of scripts or jump to the "lists" with the letter
"l", and allowed me, by pressing ENTER, to apply the script, close
the dialog box, and get rid of the task pain.
"Or" searching in Word
OK, I may be getting more ambitious here, but I'll bet I've had 100
instances in the last 30 days where I would have loved to have found
the next occurrence of one word or another, e.g., "compensation" or
"remuneration," to give you the last instance or, even more complex,
either a DeltaView "insert" style or a DeltaView "delete"
style. Yes, one can search for formatting, styles, and even special
characters (like charrage return) in Word. Word, however, insists
on searching for one item at a time. That seems primitive, and
perhaps my gripe is with Microsoft, but I would pay serious bucks
for a script that would search for alternate terms in Word.
Macro Stuff
I find that 90% of the script functionality (beyond those mentioned
above) are really almost macro-like. Yet, simply simulating a tab
key press, an up arrow, a carrage return, and the like, within a
script, seem to be mysteries. I couldn't find them at all in the
Window-Eyes object model, and I'm 50 pages into this VB tutorial and
still haven't found what I should think would be the most useful
things one could do with a script. I have a somewhat proprietary
applicatiion where information is displayed in a phantom list view
and reclassing doesn't help. A script which, for example, let me press
Alt-down arrow as a hotkey (I can do that part of the script) and
have it press the down arrow key, route the mouce to the cursor,
turn speech off, jump 2 clips to the right, turn speech back on, and
then read the next clip should be an easy script. It would be
immeasurably valuable, but, well, it is presently beyond me.
So, maybe I'll just go back to being a lawyer.
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