Re: Orca Fw: VMWare

[Ricky Enger <renger carolina rr com>]

Hi Rich,
It is indeed possible to run a Linux VM under windows, and with your 
current system specs it would be pretty sluggish but still workable.
Unfortunately though, you'll need to find a method of installing the 
OS which doesn't involve using the Festival synth.  Beginning with 
VmWare version 5, the emulated sound card doesn't handle Festival's 
mono output properly, resulting in garbled, unintelligible 
speech.  However, once you've managed to get the OS up and running, 
software speech such as Espeak or Dectalk works great.

If Ubuntu is your distro of choice, you can download a prebuilt Edgy 
from http://isv-image.ubuntu.com/vmware/

You'd then just SSh from windows to your vm, and install Orca and 
your synth.  Note that if you're using a hardware synth like the Dec 
Express, it will work nicely under VmWare as well, as long as the 
synth in question isn't being used by windows.

Hth,
Ricky

At 06:44 PM 1/16/2007, you wrote:
> OOPS, this was meant to goto the list.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> To: <bart bunting net au>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:28 PM
> Subject: VMWare
>
>
> > Bart wrote:
> > >I'm now using vmware6 beta with orca and it speaks reasonably well,
> > >very well if compared with version 5.
> > So, does this mean your running a virtual machine on Windows and running
> > linux and orca inside it? This would be an amazingly cool way to explore
> > Orca. Right now I have a dual boot windows/linux machine, which is kind of
> a
> > pain to manage.
> > Its 2.4 athalon processor with 512 megs of memory. Is this powerful enough
> > to run VMWare reasonably well, or would it be painfully slow?
> >
> > I'd also like to find a tutorial on Orca scripting, even very basic just
> to
> > get an idea of the object model exposed by apps and how that looks in
> > Python. I've never programmed in Python either, but have programmed a bit
> in
> > Java, and of course Javascript and php.
> > -- Rich
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <bart bunting net au>
> > To: <orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:27 PM
> > Subject: Orca scripting question - re vmware
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've been playing around with orca for several months, closely
> > > following the development and I'm very impressed!
> > >
> > > I'm now using vmware6 beta with orca and it speaks reasonably well,
> > > very well if compared with version 5.
> > >
> > > There is a tree view that doesn't seem to speak at all and I thought I
> > > might have a poke around and see if I could understand why not and
> > > what was required to get it to talk.
> > >
> > > The first thing I did was to do a orca + f7 to dump the relations when
> > > I was in the tree table.  This was where I started to get a bit lost.
> > >
> > > >From the output below I can see that the thing that has focus is a
> > > table cell and it has a relation of NODE_CHILD_OF.
> > >
> > > I'm guessing I need to get at the contents of this cell or it's label
> > > or some such, but don't really know where to go from here.
> > >
> > > Unfortunantly I know very little python ATM but am willing to learn.
> > >
> > > Can I get some pointers to some similar code or some hints on how to
> > > poke around to see what an application exposes?
> > >
> > > The output is pasted below.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Bart
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> > > +-name='vmware' role='application' state='' relations=''
> > >   +-name='Home - VMware Workstation (e.x.p build-36983)' role='frame'
> > state='ACTIVE ENABLED RESIZABLE SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE' relations=''
> > >     +-name=None role='filler' state='ENABLED SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE'
> > relations=''
> > >       +-name=None role='filler' state='ENABLED SENSITIVE SHOWING
> VERTICAL
> > VISIBLE' relations=''
> > >         +-name=None role='split pane' state='ENABLED FOCUSABLE
> HORIZONTAL
> > SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE' relations=''
> > >           +-name=None role='filler' state='ENABLED HORIZONTAL SENSITIVE
> > SHOWING VISIBLE' relations=''
> > >             +-name=None role='panel' state='ENABLED SENSITIVE SHOWING
> > VISIBLE' relations=''
> > >               +-name=None role='scroll pane' state='ENABLED FOCUSABLE
> > SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE' relations='LABELLED_BY'
> > >                 +-name=None role='tree table' state='ENABLED FOCUSABLE
> > FOCUSED SENSITIVE SHOWING VISIBLE MANAGES_DESCENDANTS' relations=''
> > >                   +-name=None role='table cell' state='ACTIVE ENABLED
> > FOCUSABLE FOCUSED SELECTABLE SELECTED SENSITIVE SHOWING TRANSIENT VISIBLE'
> > relations='NODE_CHILD_OF'
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