David, looks like I missed a property of the collection; there is a property named "active" which indicates the single braille table which is active, so going through the collection isn't necessary after all.
instead, I think you want: speak activeSettings.braille.TranslationTables.active.name hth, Chip -----Original Message----- From: Chip Orange [mailto:lists3...@comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 2:28 PM To: 'gw-scripting@gwmicro.com' Subject: RE: Braille Table question David, in the help file, yes it seems you understood exactly where I meant, when it tells you which kind of object something may be retrieved from, you can click on that object there in the text, and you'll be reading the main help topic for it. if you had gone back just one level further from setfile you would have seen that the active setfile is a property named activeSettings of the application object. Any time you need to know what's active for pretty much anything, try looking first under the application object. sometimes, if you guess right there as to which general type of item the property you're seeking might be in, you can go down from the top and find it, rather than from the bottom going up. however, the bottom going up as I said will always work, without guessing. In this case, it looks to me like you should use: activeSettings.braille.TranslationTables which will give you a collection of all the braille tables in the currently active setfile. If you have never dealt with a collection before, it's a kind of list, like an array, and you'll have to run through it, processing each item in the list like this: dim objCurTable for each objCurTable in activeSettings.braille.TranslationTables ' do something with objCurTable next I realize that the help file can be confusing when it's telling you the object type, can be had from a property name (that's different than the object type name) of another object type name, which when you look it up comes from a property which is named differently than the object type name ... and so on. I hope you will read the two wiki articles, and tell me where you're still confused; I'm trying to do something about it for beginners. hth, Chip ________________________________ From: David [mailto:eleph...@tele2.no] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 2:24 AM To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Subject: Re: Braille Table question Yes, Chip! I know of the help on each item, if I get your description right; and we are talking the same language. Still, I think I get lost somewhere in here. As far as I can make it, to get the name of the active Braille table, I have to get to the ACTIVE Which can be retrieved from BrailleTables Which is to be retrieved from TRANSLATIONTABLES Which is retrieved from BRAILLESETTINGS Which is retrieved from BRAILLE Which is retrieved from SETFILE object. PWEEW! Allright, where is it I got lost? Could someone, please, have provided me a short sample code, that would return the name or number of the currently active Braille Table? I thought it would be possible, but find the manual of very little help, as it only reads a load of 'can be retrieved from', and provides absolutely NO example, whatsoever. Feels like one or two lines of sample code every now and then, would have been really helpful. This is actually one of the BIG drawback I find about the Scripting manual. Cases like this, I feel like you are linked in an ever ongoing circle, and you keep swirling around therein, all till someone provides a bit of sample code, and Woopsy, you start to grasp some meaning in all of it. Don't know, if it is only me, who feels that way. And, for right now, it doesn't matter too much whether or not. What keeps my project stuck, at the moment, is that I can't get the info as to which Braille table is active, or how to change it. Hope someone can provide me a bit of help, since I have been running in circles in the manual for a few hours now. Thanks alot! ----- Original Message ----- From: Chip Orange <mailto:lists3...@comcast.net> To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 4:21 AM Subject: RE: Braille Table question Hi David, if you will go into the help file, and find the brailletables object, and press enter on it, this will open it up in the tree structure, but it will also make a help topic for the object available, which you can see as usual with the f6 key. it took me a while to catch on to this, I thought the top level objects were just there as containers for the properties and methods in the tree structure, but they do have their own help, and each one tells you how to get that particular kind of object. here is what it says for brailleTables: "Usage Use the BrailleTables object to retrieve a collection of Braille tables. A BrailleTables object can be obtained from a BrailleSettings object's TranslationTables property." hth, Chip ________________________________ From: David [mailto:eleph...@tele2.no] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 9:37 PM To: Scripting List WE Subject: Braille Table question I am pretty sure, I don't understand the manual. So every bit of direction is greatly appriciated. Here is my script, please let me know what I am missing, and how to do it correctly. Dim BrlTab Set BrlTab = BrailleTables.Active Speak "Current Braille Table is: " & BrlTab I get the following error message: Variable is undefined: 'BrailleTables' Ok, what do I do to define the BrailleTables object, described in the manual? Thanks again, ________________________________ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> . We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 320 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message.
