[duxuser] Re: Duxbury and JAWS

  • From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:20:27 -0000

Hi Steve,

Can you give me some examples of, "Quirky behaviour" please?  (Privately
if you prefer to mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dresser [mailto:s.dresser@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 05 January 2003 19:12
> To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [duxuser] Re: Duxbury and JAWS
> 
> 
> On Sunday 1/5/03 13:48 Paul Hunt wrote:
> >I believe we have focus issues because Duxbury isn't using a 
> standard 
> >edit window. I would like confirmation of this and a reason for not 
> >using standard edit windows.
> As I understand it, Duxbury attempts to make its software platform 
> independent.  One way to accomplish that is to write your own 
> code instead 
> of using MicroSoft's system calls.  While things work pretty 
> well most of 
> the time, DBT occasionally exhibits some quirky behavior in 
> the MS Windows 
> environment.  Of course, one problem is that MicroSoft keeps 
> changing the 
> operating system, and hence its behavior.  Using their system 
> calls might 
> eliminate problems with Windows, but it would be impossible 
> to keep DBT 
> platform independent.
> 
> Steve 
> 
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