Re: [orca-list] beeps on progress bar updates, thoughts?

[Haden Pike <haden pike gmail com>]

NVDA is generating a sine wave, which is easy enough to do.  The problem is that they are doing it in C++ and 
calling it using COM.  Additionally, they’re using Windows APIs to write raw audio data to the sound card.  
So yeah, it’s using Windows specific stuff.  You’d be better off starting from scratch.
Haden

> On Nov 21, 2014, at 4:16 PM, kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com> wrote:
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> hi
> I've started work on this, but it hasn't really gotten anywhere yet.
> I've copied the tones.py file from  nvda's git repository, and will
> work on trying to port this over to orca, it doesn't use windows
> specific featuers.
> Thanks
> Kendell clark
> assuming
>
> On 11/21/2014 01:17 AM, kendell clark wrote:
> > hi all I've been wanting this feature for a bit,  but I'm not sure
> > if anyone else wants it. One feature of nvda I do like, is the
> > ability to beep on progress bar updates instead of speaking. I'd
> > like something like this in orca, but don't know how easy or hard
> > this would be to implement. It's worth noting that if this does
> > happen, it will supplement and not replace speaking on progress bar
> > updates. Does anyone have any opinions on this? I thought about
> > eventually having a shortcut, probably bound to orca+p to switch
> > between speaking of progress bar updates, the default, to beeping,
> > to both beeping and speaking, to off. This might have to be
> > different on laptop mode layouts, I'm not sure if orca+p is used
> > for something. Is there a tutorial on the web somewhere I can look
> > at to implement? I can write this myself if it's not too difficult.
> > I don't know how to call orca settings functions to add this to the
> > gui preferences, and to bind it to a keyboard shortcut. Is there
> > good orca documentation on this? This would, of course, have to be
> > reconfigurable by the user in orca's keyboard shortcut settings I
> > was picturing messages such as, speak on progress bar updates,
> > beep on progress bar updates, beep and speak ... etc, and finally,
> > no progress bar updates. Thanks Kendell clark
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