[Rwp] HotSpotClicker

[Chris Belle]

I have done a bit of ahk programming,
and it is indeed extremely powerful.

I think hsc has an edge in some cases because of the tight integration with
a screen-reader, but ahk can also do some things hsc can't.

I like ahk for the hot strings, which allow you to bind a control to a 
string of text rather than a hot key which allows you many more options 
because in big plug-ins you run out of hotkeys quickly.



On 7/20/2015 3:16 PM, Matej Golian via RWP wrote:
> I don't know about specific AHK solutions, but Autohotkey can do quite
> a lot. |You can of course perform mouse clicks at specific screen
> coordinates. The coordinates can either be absolute or relative to the
> active window. Than you can directly interact with controls in a
> particular window as long as AHK is able to find these controls via
> their handles. Sadly, in the case of applications that do not use
> standard controls, this is often impossible.
> Furthermore, you can search the screen for text or specific colors.
> Than there is a function called 'imagesearch' or something like that.
> You give it a path to an image file, basically a kind of screenshot of
> what you want to find on the screen and if the image is found, AHK
> will return the screen coordinates at which this image begins. AHK can
> do a lot more (like execute programs and call functions from DLLs),
> but I'm not a pro at it and not a programmer and so I don't know what
> else you'd be interested to know about it. You can even create entire
> GUIs with it, but in this case this is not too relevant, I guess.
> Hope that helped at least a little.
>
> 2015-07-20 20:20 GMT+02:00, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
>> And not trying to be contentious at all,
>> but since osara supports MSAA,
>> any screen reader that works with it is valid, and jaws does work with
>> osara, even though it is made with NVDA but on my systems, jaws and NVDA
>> both work, but poor old window-eyes at least the version
>> I have 8.4 does not.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/20/2015 1:09 PM, Chris Belle via RWP wrote:
>>> And that is no small contribution.
>>> I still use jaws, mostly in a teaching context, but it is still very
>>> much part of my tool box.
>>>
>>> I use all three screen readers as a matter of fact, and to my thinking
>>> as long as it deals with reaper, jaws is valid.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/20/2015 12:35 PM, Jim Snowbarger via RWP wrote:
>>>> Yes, it is off topic, especially  for a list of mostly very proud,
>>>> non-jaws
>>>> users.
>>>>
>>>> As the HSC author, I'll try to fill you in, as best I remember.
>>>> Write off list to:
>>>> snowman at SnowmanRadio.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Yukio
>>>> Nozawa
>>>> via RWP
>>>> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 6:34 AM
>>>> To: rwp at bluegrasspals.com
>>>> Cc: Yukio Nozawa
>>>> Subject: [Rwp] HotSpotClicker
>>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>> This is a kind of off topic, so please let me know if it's
>>>> inappropriate for
>>>> the list.
>>>> I know that a lot of users are using HSC sets to make sample
>>>> libraries or vi
>>>> rtual instruments accessible. However, they must have JAWS installed.
>>>> For th
>>>> ose who don't have JAWS, Autohotkey can be used instead of HSC.
>>>> I don't understand how these two solutions work technically. Are
>>>> these scrip
>>>> ts just programmed to move the mouse curser to a specific location,
>>>> then gen
>>>> erate a click event to activate the function under the curser? Or,
>>>> are they
>>>> monitoring other parameters such as window or screen infos, colors,
>>>> or objec
>>>> t handles?
>>>>
>>>> Since I don't have JAWS, I have never tried HSC sets. But reading
>>>> emails in
>>>> this list, the script sets look extremely helpful. That's why I want
>>>> to know
>>>> how the scripts solve the accessibility issues.
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on a new software that can handle the mouse curser, and
>>>> manage a
>>>> ctions that are inaccessible for blind users. Understanding HSC and
>>>> Autohotk
>>>> ey will certainly help me improving my software.
>>>>
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