[jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
- From: "Tim Burgess" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 17:02:03 -0000
Well Vic, it certainly shipped in 7.1.500 - I can try and check back
further, if you're interested.
Best wishes.
Tim Burgess
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From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Victor Tsaran
Sent: 07 March 2009 03:12
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
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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