[jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
- From: "Tim Burgess" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 21:48:05 -0000
Hang on a sec - I might be giving out incorrect info here. Can you tell me
specifically what file we're talking about and any date/version number info?
I was talking about jfwapi.dll found in c:\program files\freedom
scientific\jaws\7.10, creation date 8 Nov 2006.
Best wishes.
Tim Burgess
Raised Bar Ltd
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-----Original Message-----
From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Victor Tsaran
Sent: 07 March 2009 21:19
To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
No, thanks Tim, that's enough for me.
I am happy that we don't have to use the jfwapi.dll anymore.
V
On 3/7/2009 9:02 AM, Tim Burgess wrote:
> Well Vic, it certainly shipped in 7.1.500 - I can try and check back
> further, if you're interested.
>
> Best wishes.
>
> Tim Burgess
> Raised Bar Ltd
> Phone: +44 (0)1827 719822
>
> Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music technology
> at
>
> http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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