Re: Start to scripting Orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

PS - Questions like these are always welcome!  They help determine
things that people want to do, and we can use them as fodder for the
FAQ.  I just added this example to the FAQ on the WIKI:

http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

Thanks!

Will

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 08:00 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Javier:
>
> Rather than providing custom global keystrokes for Orca, such as a
> keystroke to speak/braille the time, scripts are generally intended to
> provide specific output behavior for an application.  Scripts can, of
> course, also provide custom keystrokes to control Orca and to interact
> with the application, but we generally want to rely upon the built-in
> keyboard navigation of the desktop and applications.
>
> As such, if you want to begin writing scripts, the better thing to would
> be to pick an application you really want better access to and start
> writing a script for that.  But, if you really want a global keystroke
> for telling the time, then you can add something like the following to
> your ~/.orca/user-settings.py. This particular example sets up Insert+t
> to say "Hello World."
>
> # Set up custom keybindings.
> #
> import orca.braille
> import orca.input_event
> import orca.keybindings
> import orca.orca
> import orca.speech
>
> from orca.orca_i18n import _
>
> def sayHello(script, inputEvent=None):
>
>     message = _("Hello World")
>
>     # Say/braille something.
>     #
>     orca.speech.speak(message)
>     orca.braille.displayMessage(message)
>
>     # Consume the event so it will not go to an application.
>     #
>     return True
>
> sayHelloHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler(
>     sayHello,
>     _("Says hello to this fine world."))
>
> myKeyBindings = orca.keybindings.KeyBindings()
> myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding(
>     "t",
>     1 << orca.orca.MODIFIER_ORCA,
>     1 << orca.orca.MODIFIER_ORCA,
>     sayHelloHandler))
>
> keyBindingsMap = {}
> keyBindingsMap["default"] = myKeyBindings
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Will
>
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:13 +0200, "Dorado MartÃnez, Francisco Javier"
> wrote:
> > Hi to everyone 
> >
> > I want to begin writing some code for Orca.
> > I intent to create a showTimeAndDate script that will say and braille the
> > current time and date.
> > I have a question:
> > Where should I put this script? I think into orca.py or perhaps util.py
> >
> > Please Any help
> >
> > Thanks 
> >
> > Javier
> >
> >  
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