[orca-list] beginning work on an NVDA like controller

[kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>]

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hi all
I'm just now beginning work on what I hope might eventually become
part of orca, a shared library for applications to speak through orca.
I need help though. I haven't gotten much further then the comments at
the moment. I've been browsing through the orca code, and I can't
figure out how to load orca's user settings and tell orca to speak. I
want this library to be able to speak in whatever rate, pitch, voice,
etc the user has set up. Yes I can use speech-dispatcher to do this
but the point is to have orca do it, so it's more ... not sure what
the word is, seemless? You don't have voxin speaking and suddenly
espeak breaks in with a friend logging in or a new email, etc. Can an
orca developer or someone who knows orca reply back? I don't expect
the code written for me, but I don't know which files to import, and
how to load orca's user settings. If I can figure that out, then I can
just call speech.speak(message). I think that's it, I may have to look
at the code again. I'm writing this for the tintin alteraeon pack, but
if it gets good enough I eventually want this to be a shared library,
that any application can use to speak through orca. I haven't
forgotten about the progress bar beeps either. That's turning out to
be harder than I thought, I'm still trying to figure out how to do it.
Does anyone know which files handle the progress bars? I've looked in
a couple of places that sounded likely, speech.py, event_manager.py,
but no luck so far.
Any help would really be appreciated, I just need some pointers.
Thanks
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