Hi Shane,
If I understand this program and its purpose correctly, you have my full
support for what that's worth.
I was wondering, though: is Jaws strictly necesary? I don't have or use
it myself.
Best and thanks,
Zack.
----- 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 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
>> 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.
>
> How a Windows programmer gets along is beyond me. Anyways,
> here is a very much pre-alpha version:
> http://www.csy.ca/~shane/winaccent.zip
>
> It doesn't work fully with speakup at this point but does
> work with my DOS screenreader so that may well be as far as
> I'll take it. I'm not sure what Speakup is doing that JDOS
> isn't but there's some issue somewhere.
>
> It can run on a hardware serial port (winaccent /dev/com1)
> or virtually using vmware as I'm doing by downloading
> com0com <http://com0com.sourceforge.net>, creating a pair,
> connecting winaccent to one side and vmware to the other.
>
> If someone figures out why Speakup isn't playing well with
> this, patches are welcomed.
>
> Shane
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