I say that because I'm more familiar with C#. But the best part of WE is the fact that people can take care of their own accessibility issues too.
-----Original Message----- From: Jared Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered I've written the rough start of an OCR plugin that uses C#, just because the best client library I found for Tesseract was in .net. There's a C# development example at https://www.gwmicro.com/App_Central/Developers/C-Sharp/ Knock yourself out! On 11/27/2011 11:30 AM, Katherine Moss wrote: > Oh dang. Nice! Now VBScript I do understand a little bit just as I do with > C#. And that's another question that's been burning inside of me for a long > time. How come we never see apps written in C#? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jared Wright [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered > > Think of Immed as an interactive interpreter for WE apps written in VBScript > or JScript. > On 11/26/2011 8:59 PM, Katherine Moss wrote: >> Is that a mode you can open? I don't use WE much right now because it's >> kind of pointless having to restart my computer every half an hour. I >> hope to purchase it within the week though. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tom Kingston [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:51 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered >> >> Just to add to what Chip said, sometimes, if you're lucky, a simple look at >> the control in the immediate mode window will do the trick. I just opened a >> program wherein I knew I had some good examples. And here's all I did. >> 1. Focus the custom control. >> 2. Open the Immediate mode window. >> 3. Enter the following and note the result. >> Print FocusedWindow.ClassName >> sfppack2Bld1503TrackbarClass >> From that I know it's just a custom track bar and reclass it as a track >> bar. >> But this is the luck of the draw. Sometimes class names are informative or >> at least give you a potential clue or hint as to what to try. >> >> Otherwise it's a matter of trying to figure the control out by evaluating >> its functionality. And sometimes these custom controls look virtually no >> different than their standard counterparts. So borrowing a pair of >> knowledgeable eyes can sometimes reveal their secret. >> >> Good luck, >> Tom >> >> >> >> On 11/26/2011 7:34 PM, Chip Orange wrote: >>> Hi Katherine, >>> >>> I'm afraid you can't reclass unless you have a pretty good idea as to >>> what it should be. >>> >>> If you're a scripter, you can use the various scripting tools to take >>> a look at the control's name or class (which often gives you a hint >>> as to what it's being used for), or the MSAA info log using the WE >>> Event app might tell you something. >>> >>> If you're not a scripter, then you are usually left to trial and >>> error (and a lot of the time, you have to set it back to "original" >>> because whatever you chose is worse than what it was doing). >>> >>> Sorry it's not easier than that, but if it is, I'm afraid I don't >>> know about it. >>> >>> Chip >>> >>> >>> _____ >>> >>> From: Katherine Moss [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:19 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: how to know what to reclass controls as when encountered >>> >>> >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I was fooling around a few weeks ago with the WCF >>> service configuration editor (a tool in the Windows SDK that I will >>> need in future development endeavors), and I realized that some of >>> the controls were custom according to WE, so I made an attempt at >>> reclassing them. I reclassed them as buttons not knowing what they >>> were actually supposed to be, and whatever I did, that seemed to make >>> them all disjunct and unreadable. WE could read them, but it sounded >>> like Gibberish rather than English. What is the first step when trying to >>> reclass a control in figuring out what it should be? >>> Thanks guys. >>> >>> >>> >>> Katherine Moss, >>> >>> Administrator of the AccessCop Network, previously Raeder24.org. >>> Visit us on the web at http://raeder24.org<http://raeder24.org/> >>> >>> >>> >>> > I've written the rough start of an OCR plugin that uses C#, just because the best client library I found for Tesseract was in .net. There's a C# development example at https://www.gwmicro.com/App_Central/Developers/C-Sharp/ Knock yourself out!
