Re: [orca-list] orca and wine?

["Kristoffer Gustafsson" <kg84 dreamwld com>]

Hello!
I'm planning myself to create a virtual machine, so that I can play my 
windows games still in linux.
Have anyone tried to get jaws to work in a virtual machine?
/Kristoffer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle" <kyle4jesus gmail com>
To: <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] orca and wine?


> Unfortunately, Orca doesn't speak apps running under Wine for technical 
> reasons having to do with the toolkit being used to render the windows and 
> their contents.
>
> I also tried myself to run NVDA under Wine to try to get it to speak other 
> Wine apps, but at this point, it's a no-go. All I get is a window with a 
> title that says "errors occurred", and the explanation is unreadable by 
> Orca. Nothing even shows up in the terminal window where I ran it. At this 
> point, it seems we are stuck with Windows in a VirtualBox if we need to 
> run the occasional Windows app, with the exception of some self-voicing 
> games that I have found work without too much trouble. These games can be 
> found at
> http://www.kitchensinc.net
> Note that you will also want to install the Windows version of eSpeak to 
> make these work, since the last time I tried to install the Microsoft 
> SAPI5 voices, for some reason, they didn't install properly and gave no 
> speech.
>
> Kyle
>
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