[jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
- From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:47:15 -0800
Hi Tim,
That's the one. The question, however, was whether JAWS was always
exposing JFWAPI through COM or they started doing this recently.
V
On 3/7/2009 1:48 PM, Tim Burgess wrote:
> 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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>
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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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