[jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:25:01 -0700
O, gosh, I'm *so gonna show my stupidity here, & that is *not good!
However, was there not some software that came out awhile back called
somethin like jaws sdk.zip? My recollection was that folks were using
python to call dll functions w/it & getting jaws to speak when it
otherwise wouldn't. Does any1 know what I'm referring to? Of course I
don't know what jaws versions it's compatible with. I actually think I
might still have it around.
On 3/6/09, Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anybody know what is the earliest JAWS version that this built-in
> API was shipped with? If it is not backward-compatible, I don't think I
> can use it since not everyone is on JAWS9 or 10.
> Thx,
> Victor
>
> On 3/6/2009 10:46 AM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
>> Reporting back, I found that I was using an older jfwapi.dll on the
>> 64-bit computer, one my application had installed in its program folder
>> on the user's computer. I modified the application (EdSharp or FileDir)
>> to use the jfwapi.dll in the JAWS program folder instead, and that
>> worked. Strangely, the COM technique of producing speech worked on
>> 32-bit machines but not on the 64-bit one of the user (I do not have my
>> own to test with yet).
>>
>> So, both EdSharp and FileDir now produce direct speech on 64-bit
>> computers using the jfwapi.dll that ships with that version of JAWS.
>>
>> Jamal
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:58:27 -0500 (EST)
>>> From: Jamal Mazrui<empower@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
>>>
>>> Thanks, Doug! By the way, I did searches of all JFW documentation,
>>> including fsdn.chm, and found no references to this object model.
>>>
>>> If anyone has a 64-bit computer, I'm interested in feedback on
>>> compatibility of EdSharp
>>> http://EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
>>>
>>> FileDir
>>> http://EmpowermentZone.com/dirsetup.exe
>>>
>>> and/or JAWS Script Exchange
>>> http://EmpowermentZone.com/jsxsetup.exe
>>>
>>> I do not have access to such a computer myself at present. A user
>>> reported crashes in Edsharp and FileDir, which I narrowed to use of
>>> jfwapi.dll for direct speech messages. In the March 4 versions of
>>> EdSharp and FileDir that I posted today, the COM object model is used
>>> instead. I'm curious whether that resolves the problem. A test, for
>>> example, is to press Alt+P in EdSharp, which should speak the full path
>>> of the current document (more than the file name in the title bar).
>>>
>>> These applications have a checkbox at the end of their installation
>>> processes which offer JAWS scripts to fine tune speech in ways that I
>>> could not do otherwise. The checkbox is off by default, since other
>>> screen readers may not want them. I'm curious, if the checkbox is
>>> marked,
>>> whether the scripts are successfully installed on a 64-bit computer, or
>>> whether an error message results. A bundled copy of jsx.exe is used for
>>> this. You can test whether EdSharp or FileDir scripts are loaded by
>>> pressing JAWSKey+Q (the standard key for this) when EdSharp or FileDir is
>>> active.
>>>
>>> Jamal
>>>
>>>> Date: Wed,
>>> 4 Mar 2009 11:31:00 -0500> From: Doug Lee<doug.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
>>>>
>>>> VBScript:
>>>> dim o : set o = createObject("FreedomSci.JawsApi")
>>>> o.sayString "Hello", False
>>>>
>>>> Summary of FSAPI.dll COM interface (JAWS 10 as reference):
>>>> function Disable as Bool
>>>> function Enable(Bool vbNoDDIHooks) as Bool
>>>> method Enable
>>>> function RunFunction(BStr FunctionName) as Bool
>>>> Tells JAWS to execute a function
>>>> function RunScript(BStr ScriptName) as Bool
>>>> Tells JAWS to execute a script
>>>> function SayString(BStr StringToSpeak[, Bool bFlush = True]) as
>>>> Bool
>>>> Instructs JAWS to speak a particular string
>>>> sub StopSpeech
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 11:11:51AM -0500, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
>>>> A while back I asked how to do this but got no reply. Doug Lee informed
>>>> me on this list that there is a COM API that is part of a JAWS
>>>> installation. Previously, I had only known of a way for an application
>>>> to
>>>> produce a speech message through JAWS by using a Win32 type of call to
>>>> JFWAPI.dll.
>>>>
>>>> Although I did find references to a COM object model using a COM
>>>> browser,
>>>> I could not figure out how to instantiate and use such an object. Can
>>>> anyone tell me how an application, other than JAWS, can call a COM
>>>> method,
>>>> passing it a string, to produce a speech message through the currently
>>>> running JAWS?
>>>>
>>>> This has become more important because JFWAPI.dll does not seem to
>>>> work under 64 bit Windows.
>>>>
>>>> Jamal
>>>>
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