and to get up close and personal about it, I can tell you that even a windows screen reader running on windows that encounters x inside the box does not see it even though it is the windows flavor of x. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin McCormick" <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 7:27 AM Subject: Re: synthavoice computers out of business I am sure that the concepts could be ported, but the actual process of porting any of the GUI screen readers to X would be a ground-up project to say the least. A lot of C these days is pretty standard so that C or C++ programs written on one platform will compile on another if it also has a standard sort of C compiler like GCC, but Windows screen readers were developed specifically for Windows and probably use every Windows trick in the book in order to work as well as they do. I believe that there are several flavors of X floating around and all of them have structures and engines in them that do graphical things which might look kind of Windows-like, but they may be put together in a totally different way from an internal standpoint than the same Windows application was. How's that for vague generalities. Martin McCormick Ian Blackburn writes: >I wonder what could be done about porting Window Bridge to x Windows? > > >======================================================== > Standard disclaimer: > Any recipient of this communication acknowledges that: > * the Government Employees Superannuation Board accepts no responsibility > for the contents, nor the validity of this communication; and > * they do not rely on any view given unless it is properly authorised. >======================================================== > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list