Hi Again David,
I think you have to decide on how much of the editbox you want to speak.
In my Breaking News app I have it read the number of lines, or the
selected section.
All this is done by functions I have for cursor position inside an edit box
or you select it all and read it all.
So, as I stated below, if you want to read all the editbox and have the
user shut off speech as desired by hitting any neutral key, just do the
selectall feature of the editbox and read it all...
But you can do a search inside the editbox and read any part of it based
on those criteria...
There are many editbox controls to choose from but most used are the
cursor position, line number and read selected data.
It is your choice on what you want the tab to do.
So, I can give you all the controls for the editbox I have as functions
to extract the data or position inside that editbox.
Just look at the options inside an editbox control, that will give you
all you need. But your cursor position is a starting point besides the
select all feature...
Bruce
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: Auto-read of Editboxes
Hi David,
I think if you do a select all you might get that happening. So when it
gets focus have it select all the text and see what happens.
Bruce
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 1:54 AM
Subject: Auto-read of Editboxes
Hey listers,
Got a tiny issue here, hoping someone would happen to have an idea for a
fix.
I have a dialog, with a few controls. One of them, is an ReadOnly
Editbox, which will automatically be updated by the app, through its
execution.
To describe it a bit more, this is in the User's Guide section of my
app. I have the treeview at top of the screen, and the edit box holding
the actual contents of the chapter just beneath it. This way, the user
can scroll through the chapter headings, in the top control, and then
simply press Tab, to get to the contents of the chapter. Shift-Tab, and
you are back in the Table Of Contents, and can choose your next topic
for reading.
Everything works just fine, except from this one minor issue. When the
cursor lands on the ReadOnly edit box holding the chapter contents, the
speech randomly reads all the contents, and sometimes only the first
couple of lines of the box. Is there any quick fix for this? Or, should
I let the user have to manually either arrow through the text, or press
the Read-to-end hotkey. Is there any "Auto-Read" feature for an edit box?
Don¨'t know, why the speech sometimes reads all the text, and other
times only part of it. But wish there was a way to make it as seamless
for the user as possible. If no auto-read feature currently exists,
maybe the AISquare staff could consider having such a feature
implemented. And, if anyone has a workaround with a few lines of coding,
I am all ears.
OK, I guess, I could have the app simulate the Read-to-end hotkey,
whenever the edit box gets focused. Yet, how could I ensure that this
would work, even if the user has changed the standard of Ctrl-Shift-R,
for this hotkey? Is there an underlaying instruction in the app coding,
for "invoking this feature of the screen reader directly?
Thanks for all your feedback on the matter. Not a big deal, but still
would be great to have it worked out, if possible.
aut
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David
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