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[Bill Wendling]

Hi John,

> My name is John Brumbelow, and I am a developer of OptiDoc. I am trying to
> make a reader/magnifier for our software to read text from any application,
> including Java Applets, into our C++/VB/C# programs. To explain this need.
> We have customers who are visually impared, but need to gather information
> from 3rd party applications, and get it to index information. Sun has an API
> which makes a good part of this possible. It is called the "Java Access
> Bridge". This API is usable in C/C++/VB/C# applications, to let them read
> from Java Applets. But it does not work on all components of Java Applets.
> In particular, "combo box", "push button", "check box" and other controls do
> not have functionality in the "Java Access Bridge" (JAB) to get their text.
> So, I have been struggling to find anything that can take the "Java Access
> Bridge" or something, the extra step to get the text from "combo box", "push
> button", and other controls.
>
> In my searches, I came across this website of yours:
>
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20071105/055414.html
>
Unfortunately, I won't be able to help you. The patch you mentioned
was a result of a "merge" of our tree with another tree. So I didn't
write this code, and, unfortunately, I'm not up-to-date on Java
technology.

-bw

> It had a link to a Bill Wendling, who evidently is related to code in this
> link. This link has lots of C/C++ code for providing "accessibility support
> for the combo box". I can clearly see relationship from the code to
> "jobject" handles, which is a key ingredient to JAB's various functions.
>
>
>
> If you can please, help me bridge between JAB or something, to get the text
> from "combo box", "push button" and other various control. Here are
> questions I think that if you could please help me answer, would bridge this
> gap:
>
>
>
> Is there a way, that one can take a "jobject" handle that JAB gets for a
> "combo box" object and some how use it with your AccessibleAWTChoice class
> in your code, to then let one use the AccessibleAWTChoice's member function
> called "getItem" to get the text?
>
>
>
> If not, do you know of anyway one can use JAB or something in a C/C++
> windows application, to get the text from "combo box", "push button", and
> other controls from an external running Java Applet?
>
>
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
>
>
> John Brumbelow
>
>
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