Re: [orca-list] Help with orca-customizations.py fileplease

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

PS - you can also find an example here: 
http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

Hope this helps,

Will

Daniel Dalton wrote:
> I just realised: I had two functions with the same name. I've fixed that,
> I'm just not sure how to assign the output of a bash command to a
> variable in python? Any ideas?
> I can get it to say hello world though... Kinda pointless I know.
> So if anyone knows how I can assign the output of a shell command to the
> message variable I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks very much
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 03:47:29PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not a python programmer, but I've written a shell script to get the
> > weather for my home town... Anyway its a shell script and I need to run
> > it with the command:
> > weather.sh
> > Anyway, I've tried to link it in to a python script so I can press
> > insert W and orca will say the weather, but it's not working... As I
> > said I'm not a programmer, but can someone who knows a little python
> > please let me know how to fix it? I've attached my
> > orca-customizations.py file...
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Daniel
>
> > # setup custom key bindings.
> > #
> > import orca.input_event
> > import orca.keybindings
> > import orca.orca
> > import orca.speech
> > import orca.braille
> > import re
> >
> > # define keybindings object
> > myKeyBindings = orca.keybindings.KeyBindings()
> >
> > # define script for handling dates
> > def sayDate(script, inputEvent=None):
> >  import time
> >  message = time.strftime("%A, %d %B %Y", time.localtime())
> >  orca.speech.speak(message)
> >  orca.braille.displayMessage(message)
> >  return True
> >
> > sayDateHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler(sayDate, "presents the date.")
> >
> > # assign orca key + d to our date function
> > myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding("d", 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, 1 << 
> > orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, sayDateHandler))
> >
> > # define script for handling time
> > def sayTime(script, inputEvent=None):
> >  import time
> >  message = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", time.localtime())
> >  orca.speech.speak(message)
> >  orca.braille.displayMessage(message)
> >  return True
> >
> > sayTimeHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler(sayTime, "presents the time.")
> >
> > # assign orca key + t to our time script
> > myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding("t", 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, 1 << 
> > orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, sayTimeHandler))
> >
> > # define script for handling time
> > def sayTime(script, inputEvent=None):
> >  import os
> >  message = os.system("weather.sh")
> >  orca.speech.speak(message)
> >  orca.braille.displayMessage(message)
> >  return True
> >
> > sayWeatherHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler(sayWeather, "presents the weather.")
> >
> > # assign orca key + t to our time script
> > myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding("w", 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, 1 << 
> > orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, sayWeatherHandler))
> >
> >
> > # add our new keybindings to orca
> > orca.settings.keyBindingsMap["default"] = myKeyBindings
>
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