Henter-Joyce Technical Support Notice # 12 (TSN-12 )
Subject: Menus and Menu Bars Speaking in MS Office
Henter-Joyce Product: JAWS for Windows 3.2
Category: MS-OFFICE
January 25, 1999

Menus and Menu Bars Speaking in MS Office

The following instructions explain how to get the Menus and Menu Bars speaking in MS Office applications.

Add the following line to the [OSM] section of the .JCF file for the specific office package an individual wants to use, such as: Excel.JCF or Winword.JCF. It reduces the processing time for JFW and should get the menu bar (File, Edit, View, and Insert) talking.

TrackCommandBars=1

It's now possible to specify custom highlight colors, which are unrelated to the Windows Highlight colors. The following instructions explain how to get the actual menus to track and speak automatically.

To use this feature, the following three lines must be added to the [OSM] section of the .JCF file for any program that uses a non standard highlight color. These lines should be added directly after the one mentioned above (TrackCommandBars=1).

UseCustomHighlight=1

CustomHighlightTextColor=0

CustomHighlightColor=192192192

In the above example lines, black text on a gray background would be treated as highlighted text. Any text drawn using the Windows Highlight colors would also be treated as highlighted.

Explanation of settings:

UseCustomHighlight

The setting for this value is used to control how JFW will use custom highlight colors.

If set to 0, JFW will ignore the custom highlight colors.
If set to 1, JFW will use custom highlight colors in addition to the Windows highlight colors.
If set to 2, JFW will use custom highlight colors exclusively and ignore the Windows highlight colors.

CustomHighlightTextColor

This should be set to the value of the custom highlight color text.

CustomHighlightColor

This is the RGB value of the background color of the highlighted text. This color can be determined by placing the JAWS Cursor on the point of interest and pressing INSERT+5.

If the color is spoken as a word instead of a numeric value, look in the COLORS.INI file in the SETTINGS directory for the equivalent numeric value.

If INSERT+5 says the color of an area that you want to set as a custom highlight is black on gray, the CustomHighlightTextColor would be set to 0, which is black. The gray entry can be looked up in COLORS.INI, where it can be found as the text equivalent for 192192192. The CustomHighlightColor would be set to 192192192.
If INSERT+5 says the color of an area was blue on 0128128, you would set CustomHighlightTextColor to 6, and the CustomHighlightColor to 0128128.

A list of text colors and their equivalent numeric value for use in the CustomHighlightTextColor value follows:

Black=0

Blue=1

Green=2

Cyan=3

Red=4

Magenta=5

Brown=6

Light Gray=7

Dark Gray=8

Bright Blue=9

Bright Green=10

Bright Cyan=11

Bright Red=12

Bright Magenta=13

Yellow=14

Bright White=15

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if you want unprecedented performance, reliability and stability
we suggest you consider Window-Eyes.