[jawsscripts] Re: Direct speech via JAWS COM API
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:44:17 -0500 (EST)
I found jfwapi.dll in the program folder of JAWS 6.2. Not sure about
earlier versions, but I think it was included in JAWS 6 and above.
Jamal
On Fri,
6 Mar 2009, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:12:30 -0800
> From: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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