Would window-eyes work? Greg On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 05:08:30AM -0000, Saqib Shaikh wrote: > I personally consider it unlikely that JFW will work under Wine/Lindows. > This is largely because JFW does some rather, erm shall we say naughty, > things to get information from the screen. Furthermore not sure that MSAA > would work. However I am hopeful that Hal from Dolphin would work. This is > because Hal follows all the rules far more stringently, and so if Wine can > just capture all GDI system calls and translate them into Linux terms > there's no reason why it won't work. > > Saqib > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:58 AM > Subject: Re: Lindows preview. > > > > However, as long as you put thedependent dll files somewhere your screen > > reader can find them it might work. > > I had a problem some months back with a copy of JFW, and I managed to > badger > > Freedom Scientific into giving me the name of the dependancy dll files so > I > > didn't have to upgrade Internet Explorer everytime they got a whim to > > update. > > So there is a chance, although slim, that wine could support a screen > > reader. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jason" <unleet at qwest.net> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:10 PM > > Subject: Re: Lindows preview. > > > > > > > OK, here's the deal on "lindows" > > > It uses "Wine", a "Windows compatability layer" for linux. Wine requires > > X. > > > My best guess is that JAWS for windows won't run under Wine. I don't > have > > a > > > copy to test with myself, but knowing what I do about the way Wine > > seperates > > > programs from each other quite a bit more than Windows does I doubt the > > > needed "common ground" that JAWS depends on would be present. > > > > > > Oh yeah, as an aside, the version of Wine that lindows will ship with is > > > modified slightly; it contains significantly better support for DirectX > > and > > > OpenGL than the regular version of Wine. > > > > > > On a completely unrelated note, it could be possible to write a version > of > > > Wine that doesn't use X and simply dumps text to a console for speakup, > or > > > whatever else, to read. No, I'm not volunteering for that project :-P > > > But if anytone happens to want to start a project to hack X and the > > relevent > > > toolkit libraries into accessible submission, I'll join, I've even got > the > > > beginnings of a structure worked out for all of it. > > > > > > (hmmm.... this e-mail got a lot longer than I intended) > > > > > > On Tuesday November 27, 2001 02:35 am, you wrote: > > > > the same question occurred to me too. > > > > but it also occurred to me that if lindows is able to run both linux > and > > > > windows programs as suggested, would you not be able to run your > > > > existing windows screen reader as well as speakup? > > > > of course not at the same time <evil grin> > > > > I thought that the idea of lindows was to have a thin translation > layer > > > > for interpreting windows stuff. > > > > at least that's what I remember from what I've seen about it anyway. > > > > On > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
