Hi Ken,
To understand what a custome control is, first you need to understand
that controls are things you can interact with on the screen. An edit
box for example is where you type something. A rich edit is an edit
box that does smart things for you, like making http addresses so that
you can click them and go to a web site. Treeview and list controls
show lists of information like the files and folders on your
computer. Check box and radio button controls let you choose yes, no,
or one or the other thing. If that wasn't obscure enough, now we get
to custom controls.
When a program is designed, the programmer can use the standard edit
box, check box, button, listview controls that come built in to the
language system being used to design the program. Or, the person can
make their own thing that looks and acts like one of the standard
controls... only it isn't. This is a custom control. Window-eyes
calls everything it doesn't recognize a custom control.
The reason you might hear custom control when a program starts is that
many programs have what is called a splash screen, and splash screens
are often built from scratch by the program designer. The purpose of
a splash screen is to keep you ocupied for the 2 seconds it takes for
the program you just opened to load and be ready for use. Often the
splash screen has copyright information and a logo. Some have
anamations and other things that are entertaining to the visual user
who needs something to draw their eye while they wait for the program
to open. As I said, window-eyes will more often than not fail to
recognize the splash screen for what it is and read it, because of the
design. Therefore, it will tell you a custom control has focus when
you open a program. Then of course it will go off and read the
program itself very nicely most of the time.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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Phone: 888-255-5194
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On 6-Aug-09, at 6:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi list members, Ken here. As window-eyes is running and when I
sign on to AOL for example, the Dectalk voice says, "custom
control." What is it telling me? I know what it's saying when the
mouse pointer changes shape from an hourglass to an arrow, but don't
know what custom control is trying to tell me. Also understand "Ap
Starting." Thanks, Ken.
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