[RWP] AHK

[Chris Belle]

One needs to use all three screen-readers to have it all these days.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] AHK


> You're right, too bad I'm not a jaws user, all due to misguided advice to 
> get Vocalize to run dos, way way back in the last century.
> I have Jaws12, and resolve to learn to run it, well, but probably won't 
> happen, though.
>  I just found the search function in NVDA, the last thing it didn't have 
> that made it slightly inferior to Wineyes, and the 2013 NVDA now parks 
> itself back aligned with the link to a webPage when you exit the webPage; 
> yet another improvement to discourage ever running anything but slick 
> little NVDA.
> The only occasion I ever bring up Wineyes now is to use it's numPad 
> functions on a very oddly written logOn box.
> For finding screen coordinates, I may download the 40 minute demo of jaws 
> again, if the OCR can provide coordinates of all the unknown graphics; to 
> spot up with your knockOffHotSpotter.
> thanks,
> Indi
>
> On 6/2/2013 9:22 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
>> Well, if you know of  anyone who knows how to make AHK find graphics
>> when it doesn't already know about them, I would sure like to know about
>> it.
>> I am definitely not an AHK expert, but I haven't seen anything so far
>> that makes me think it can do that.  I know there is some feature that
>> lets you search for an image, but you have to have a copy of that image
>> ahead of time so it can search for it.  I don't understand how to get
>> that copy yet. fBut, that process requires somebody to already know what
>> area of the screen to get it from.
>> So yeah, if you can connect me with information about how to get AHK to
>> just create a list of graphics, I would be interested.
>> Too bad you're not a JAWS user.  <grin>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2013 8:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [RWP] AHK
>>
>>
>>> Well, Jim; you show humility about yur programming skills ; but you're
>>> sure making fast progress with AHK.
>>> Of course we're all hoping that claim that AHK can automatically
>>> locate, number and list the bit map graphics,  and  return to them
>>> when you punch up their number is true.
>>> I think jaws does that, but we're not all jaws users, and maybe AHK
>>> can seek out those graphics even after the screens have shifted or
>>> changed colors, as I've heard from ross it can
>>> If we get a script that locates graphics; we can try some of them to
>>> determine their action, even without sighted help, then label them
>>> according to their purpose.
>>> What I'd hope for is a kind of universal kiddie script template for us
>>> real non programmers; that finds the graphics, tags them with numbers,
>>> lets me return to them; plus a selection of actions; like to type in
>>> names; click automatically when I select them; or let me click manually.
>>> An auto spotting script, with user choices and nameing fields would be
>>> such a blessing.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Indi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/1/2013 10:14 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
>>>> It is V3.  The file also contains a version number at the top.
>>>> No, you can rename the .ahk file to be whatever you want.
>>>> The data file it generates will be located in folder c:\ahk.
>>>> It creates a file with a .INI extension, named after the main
>>>> application.
>>>> I might be wishing that it was named after the title of the window you
>>>> are working in.
>>>> But, your data will probably turn up in c:\ahk\reaper.ini.
>>>> Its convenient to put the .ahk file there too, but it doesn't matter, 
>>>> it
>>>> can be anywhere you want.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 8:59 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] AHK
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I've been  adding a v1 v2 v3 to each of their titles, or I would have
>>>>> got confused.
>>>>> I hope that doesn't harm their running, Jim.
>>>>> I called this one HotSpotKnockOff_v3.
>>>>> Which post  was it meant to replace as the correct one?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Indi
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/1/2013 9:46 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
>>>>>> Sorry, I think I may have distributed the wrong file.  Here is a
>>>>>> corrected
>>>>>> link.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3677477/HotSpotKnockoff.ahk
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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