question on View widgets

Does anyone know how to make the VIEW widgets displayed in Windows environments "visible" to my software. Most windows buttons, text boxes, etc. are visible to my voice recognition software, but VIEW's are not. The alt-key letter is usually underscorred too. Many thanks for any suggestions. Evan Hawkins<

Hi Evan, EH> Does anyone know how to make the VIEW widgets displayed in EH> Windows environments "visible" to my software. EH> Most windows buttons, text boxes, etc. are visible to my EH> voice recognition software, but VIEW's are not. The alt-key letter EH> is usually underscorred too. You can't AFAIK, because they are not true Windows controls. That is, they are not windows as far as Windows is concerned--they don't have handles, etc. For better or for worse, this is how REBOL handles cross-platform GUIs, so the chance of changing it is probably near zero. VID is meant to be a small, lightweight, GUI system. If we want RT to consider extending it--for things like better focus handling, visible hot-keys, skinning, etc.--we have to make an excellent argument for it. The upcoming View 1.3 release won't have any of these changes however. -- Gregg