My experience is that jaws works very well with the console. You do
need to go into jaws cursor mode rather than PC, but other than that
reviewing what is in the console is easy.
One thing to note about Paul's description of how VS runs console
programs, the hit enter to continue bit is only displayed if the
program is _not_ run in the debugger. If you just use the debugger but
don't have a breakpoint then the program will run and then exit and
the console will go away.
To deal with that you can either add a breakpoint at the end of main
or call system("pause") yourself before returning from main.
On 8/20/15, Paul Martz via Jfw <[email protected]> wrote:
> It sounds like you are writing a program in C or C++ and I'm guessing it is
> what Visual Studio calls a "console application". If that assumption is
> correct, then when you run the program, it opens a console window and
> displays all text output in that window. When the program exits, the
> console
> window says "press enter to close the window" or something like that.
> Before
> you press enter to close the window, you should be able to read the text in
> the same way as you would with any Windows command shell.
>
> In my experience, Windows command shells are kind of difficult to use with
> JAWS. If the amount of text output is small (that is, it all fits in the
> console window without scrolling), then you might be able to read it by
> virtualizing the window (INSERT + ALT + W). This displays ONLY the text
> visible in the command shell, so anything that has scrolled off the top
> will
> not show up in the virtual viewer.
>
> If your application is NOT a console application (that is, it's some kind
> of
> GUI application), then I'm not sure where standard output goes. There might
> be a compile option to open a command shell, in which case it would be
> displayed there, just like a console application. But I really don't know.
>
> If I remember correctly, there are some JAWS scripts that make Visual
> Studio
> easier to use (hotkeys to examine the value of variables under the debugger
> and that sort of thing).
>
> You might consider joining the program-l mailing list, which is for blind
> software developers. You might get more help in that list. For information
> about that list, send email to [email protected] with the
> subject "faq" and you should get a reply with info about subscribing, etc.
>
> I hope this helps.
> -Paul
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> I just installed visual studio 2010 and am using it with Jaws. When I run
> the
>> program, I get some lines telling me that the program has successfully
> run,
>> but I don't see the text I designed the program to print on the screen. I
> am
>> not sure if this is an issue of properly accessing the output window with
>> jaws or if it is an issue with how I am using the cout and iostream
>> commands. Should the text come out in the same wwindow as the output
>> that gives the errors and other such stuff about how the program ran? Is
>> there anyone here who is familiar with the use of visual studio with jaws
>> and can help?
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