Rick,
Do these guys own Window-Eyes? If not, they could use VBScript in Windows itself (via WSH), but the snippets here won't work without a lot of careful conversion work. Still, the books teaching VBScript all count on the Windows environment WSH for execution, so all their examples would work. Hth, Chip From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 7:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VBA MS Continued Support? Hi MJ: These are rather beginner level programmers and would be confused trying to work in Visual Studio as well as the more cryptic use of CSharp and working with the Managed Objects of a true OOP Programming Language. That is why I thought about VBA as an alternative. The guys on list have done about everything these nubes could want and it is light years easier to get started with. Thanks: Rick USA ----- Original Message ----- From: MJ Williams <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 7:19 AM Subject: Re: VBA MS Continued Support? If I may be permitted I would suggest C# as a safe choice for a beginner programmer. it has all the advantages of being a mainstream and well-supported language plus the clarity and transparency (within reason) that a beginner will require. HTH Matt At 11:13 17/09/2012, you wrote: Hi: I have been looking at VBA as a language to recommend to some programmers on the Blind Programming list since you guys are very good and there are allot of code snipets available to learn from. That said, I just read that Office 2013 will not support VBA macros anymore and, on allot of sites, that VBA is dying and will not be around much longer but nothing about that yet from Microsoft. What have you heard and what language will become the new scripting standard if VBA goes away for WE developers? I want to help them get started learning to program, most of them have some background but not enough to tackle a full-blown IDE like Visual Studio. Also, if they join this list they will get exposed to the WindowEyes screen reader which would make my life easier helping them with accessibility issues. Have any of you heard anything about the demise of VBA and are there any rumors about what GW will do if it does indeed go away? Rick USA
