[gui-talk] Fwd: wE4Java 0.9.10 for Window-Eyes now available - several updates

[Steve Pattison]

From: Macarty, Jay {PBSG} Jay.Macarty at pbsg.com
To: gw-scripting at gwmicro.com


All,

WE4Java 0.9.10 beta is now available at the link below:

 

http://rapidshare.com/files/194122163/WE4Java_0.9.10_setup.exe

 

This release contains several updates including menu bar support, recognition of password fields, sound feedback in the form of sound profiles, and improved mouse tracking ability. A new demo program, swingset2 has also been added. This program is the demo for all types of swing controls and is the one I have used heavily during development. The change log for this release is given below:

 

Beta Release 0.9.10 - Thursday, 2/5/2009

 

This release contains the following updates:

 

  * Support for recognizing password edit fields. 

  * Support for reading menu bar selections and pull down menus. 

    When a menu bar menu is opened, the name of the menu will be announced 

    along with the number of items in the menu. If any menu items are disabled,

    a count of these will be read as well. If a menu option is checked, this will be 

    announced. If a submenu or dialog exists, this will also be read. 

  * Sound feedback returns in the form of sound profiles. A sound profile

    is really just a section in the WE4Java.ini file. Thus, new profiles or 

    modification of existing profiles can be controlled through the 

    ini file. To turn off sound profiles, set the value SoundProfile= 

    to None in the [Settings] section at the top of the WE4Java.ini file. 

  * Mouse tracking has been enhanced. The mouse-to-top-left hotkey works and the 

    mouse-to-focused-item hotkey. Also, the mouse up, down, left and right 

    movement keys function to move the mouse. Mouse read commands, such as 

    mouse-read-line or mouse-read-word do not function as yet. 

  * Sound feedback is provided during mouse movement. If the mouse moves into 

    a menu bar or tool bar, a solid click is sounded and the words menu bar or tool bar

    are announced. If the mouse is manually moved into a different java window, 

    a different click sound is played. If the mouse moves from one java panel to 

    another within the same window, a light click is played. If the mouse 

    movement keys are used and the mouse is attempted to move beyond the current window, 

    a cowbell like sound is played. 

  * A bug was fixed which prevented window-Eyes from responding to hotkey 

    events if a java application was active but was not the currently 

    active window. 

  * A new demo program, SwingSet2, was added to the WE4Java program group. 

    This is the program demoing all types of swing controls using 

    16 different screens. This has been a major test program used during 

    WE4Java development. 

 

NOTE: To try out the menu bar support, you can start the Swingset2 demo and then press alt+f to go to the file menu. Press right arrow to move to the next menu. If you are in the notepad program, they did not provide a shortcut to the menu bar choices; so, you will need to press the mouse-to-top-left hotkey to get to the menu bar. 

 

Happy testing.

    

Regards Steve
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