Hi,
Thank you for your advice. I will deffinetly go through some scripts
slower to see if I know what's going on.
Any spacific ones I should look at? Any you would recomend?
Tj
On 2/12/2011 12:49 PM, Jeff Weiss wrote:
I am not a professional programmer, but the way I got started was to
work with every script in the Window-Eyes scripting manual.
I started with the old "Hello World" script, and worked through every
example I could find.
Along the way, I started modifying the examples I found.
I also try to read everything I can find on VBScripting!
Some things I am not interested in at this time, such as using
vbScripts in web pages; however, I have found things on this topic,
and I have waded through some things and pulled out some interesting
things which I could modify for my own use.
I have also studied the code in many scripts which were submitted by
other users and I have learned a lot from them.
Aside from reading, every time I find a script example that does
something useful, I add it to my script library. Many short scripts
are in my library, and they are named so I know just what they do.
Feel free to ask questions. I have asked many, and I have gotten the
answers that I wanted 99 percent of the time.
Hope this helps,
Jeff Weiss
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tj Squires" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:12 AM
Subject: Just an interduction and a newbie question or three.
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
