[Rwp] HotSpotClicker

Mon Jul 20 19:30:01 EDT 2015

HSC does let you bring up a list of HotSpots, and choose one from the lsit,
so you don't have to assign a hot key.
You can also set up a ring of hotSpots, which you can navigate with the tab
key, or by using it's own hot key for that.  Each time you press the key,
you cycle to the next spot in the ring and activate it.
You can have as many rings as you want, and even have a ring of rings. 

You can load completely different hotspot definitions based on what part of
your program is active at the moment.
That lets you use the same hot key for different purposes, depending on
context.
You can even define uses for double and triple click hot keys.

-----Original Message-----
From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Chris Belle
via RWP
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 3:49 PM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Cc: Chris Belle
Subject: Re: [Rwp] HotSpotClicker

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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