TJ,
In addition to the objects you can manipulate, study the events that
Window-Eyes lets you monitor. The two best ways to do this are with the
WE Event app and by examining the source code of other developers.
Finally, be comfortable with your scripting language of choice. VBScript
is the standard we have settled upon, but that's due mostly to its
readability and ubiquity throughout Windows. If you're used to the JFW
syntax, JavaScript would likely be more familiar.
Hope this helps you get started, and feel free to ask any other
questions as you learn.
Regards,
Steve
On 2/12/2011 12:10 PM, Tj Squires wrote:
Hello,
I thought I would give a hello out there to all of you scripters, and
perhaps if there are, people like me who wish they were scripters! My
name is Tj, and I've been a Jaws user for most of my computer using
life. The reason I say most is because a couple of weeks ago, I have
started getting into using Window Eyes, and enjoy the process.
Unfortunately, I only still have the demo, however, rectifying this
will happen on Monday!
Anyhow, now that's out of the way, I would like to say one of the
biggest things that has attracted me to Window Eyes is it's inovative
and, well, to some I'm sure, easy to use scripting process. For me,
though, it's hard!
Having said that, I've got a couple of questions for those that are
experienced script writers (or should I say app now). The question
is, how did you get started? I've devoured the two CSUN 2009 script
recordings, the two online intro webinars, and I will finish the last
couple today, however, I find myself with a little problem. Although
i'm sure that it's explained verry thurrowly in the three day
beginners training course I don't have the money to attend. I'm just
a poor college student after all! How did you guys get started?
While I find the classes that are provided online verry helpful in
assisting in understanding the process, I found myself still a bit
clueless after the fact. I delved into the scripting manual and found
out that objects return objects wich you can use to return objects.
An example is the activeWindow.clips object returns a clip object
which if I search through that clip object I'll get a bigger list of
clips objects...which I can no dout figure out with patients and time,
however, I guess I should just come straight out and ask the question,
eh? I have an issue of wanting to jump into thigns that I'm too small
for (scripting the skype options dialogue to become accessible for
instance), however, I can't seem to figure out what sort of things I
should do to increase my knowledge of the WE object moddle. What
kinds of basic, newbie scripts, did all of you start with? And are
there any tutorials I've missed? Thanks for stickign with me on such
a long-winded post. I hope to contribute to GW's customer base, and
hopefully, the App Central's list of contributers at some point in the
future!
Thanks,
Tj
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