shane, LP is just a pointer. You can use const char*, though const may not work. and int would work for interupt. Check the windows API documentation--they have about 500000 different types of variables that are all typedefed to int long short char* etc etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup@xxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:05:04AM -0800, Tony Baechler wrote: >> setup.exe from cygwin.com. I don't use JAWS but I would be interested >> if you get something like this to work. > > If someone who knows this stuff can contact me off list, I > have a few questions but yeah this definitely looks doable > with the current Cygwin. I can get the serial stuff going > but the question is how to link in and use jfwapi. I have > jfwapi.dll from my jaws install and can link it with > gcc test.c -L. -ljfwapi > But I have no jfwapi.h and the calling parameters on this > stuff are not C as I know it. > > NAME > JFWSayString > > PURPOSE > Instructs JFW to speak a string of text. > > USAGE > BOOL WINAPI JFWSayString(LPCTSTR lpszStrinToSpeak,BOOL > bInterrupt); > > IE. what is an lpctstr, can I just define jfwsaystring as: > extern int jfwsaystring(const char *s, int interrupt); > > Somehow I doubt it but this must come up when linking in > any foreign dll into a Cygwin project. > > The jfwapi is very limited, jfwsaystring, jfwstopspeech and > jfwrunscript so if using the Jaws api, synth codes for > setting rate, pitch, punctuation etc aren't gonna work. > Rather, the user will have to set those things in Jaws > unless I can find a good sapi5 cygwin implementation but I > understand sapi is a beast. > > Shane > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
