Lloyd: Your Mouse solution won't work. When navigating by line with the Mouse, the Mouse is automatically moved to the first character in the new line. It is possible to change the actions assigned to specific keystrokes, but this assumes there is a hardware cursor of some sort that can be manipulated in the desired manner using keystrokes. Furthermore, consider Microsoft Excel. If you have a column of numbers that are all formatted, say with two digits to the right of the decimal point, it is easy to move up and down the column of numbers, but, suppose your insertion point is on the digit immediately to the left of the decimal point and you would like to move to the corresponding digit in the cell above; moving the insertion point up one cell doesn't accomplish this task. Finding the digit just to the left of the decimal point, though simple, is tedious and after a while time-consuming. You can see from the example above that it would be much easier if one could simply up arrow with the mouse and have the mouse land on the character immediately above the character it was on before the up arrow command was issued. I don't think this is currently possible. Careful formatting can aid the process within most edit boxes and the availability of a hardware cursor makes this very easy in terminal emulation type applications. Unfortunately, there are other situations where this ability can be quite helpful but is not currently available. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
-----Original Message----- From: Rasmussen, Lloyd [mailto:l...@loc.gov] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 9:34 AM To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Subject: RE: Simple app request? You may not need a script or a new SET file. If the mouse pointer accurately reflects the character alignment, which it often does, try reading the array of numbers with the mouse pointer rather than the cursor. By default, the 2 and 8 keys will move you up and down and read a whole line. But Alt-5 (on the numeric pad) rotors among several different "mouse read line" options, including current character. It's up to you as to whether you want to put this updated setting in a SET file which you load when needed; it's almost easier to just set this option on the fly whenyou want to use it. It is also possible to adjust the behavior of the up and down arrow "cursoring keys" so that they read current character. No apps needed. Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped Library of Congress 202-707-0535 http://www.loc.gov/nls The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Library of Congress, NLS. -----Original Message----- From: Cory Martin [mailto:cory.martin.mailingli...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 10:12 PM To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com Subject: Simple app request? Hello all, I am not able to yet write my own scripts, however I need a simple script made and was wondering if someone could help me. I'm taking a course in which I have to look at stacked binary numbers stacked on top of each other. So like: 11000000 10100000 When you move up and down line by line Window Eyes naturally reads each line as you land on it from beginning to end which is what you usually want. However, in this case i just want to compare individual characters as I move up and down so that Window Eyes only reads the single character I land on as I move to it so that I can compare numbers pair by pair, left to right. Listening to it read the whole thing makes it much harder. There are Note Pad scripts for this who's name must not be named and those are distributed by the course, however as I don't use said thing and won't use it, I was wondering if someone could make me ann app that allows you to change the way Window Eyes reads lines as you land on them on the fly. Hey maybe it could be included in Window Eyes as a new feature! Anyways, is something like this possible? It would make my task of anding for calculating subnets so much easier! Thanks! Cory
