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

From: kendell clark <coffeekingms gmail com>
To: Haden Pike <haden pike gmail com>
Cc: Orca List <orca-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: [orca-list] beeps on progress bar updates, thoughts?
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:48:47 -0600

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hi
Sigh, that was supposed to be "if" it doesn't use windows specific
stuff, and yeah,  this is way over my head. In theory this shouldn't
be too complicated, just generate a tone that follows the progress
bar. The hard part is hooking the two together, and having it keep up
even on low resource systems. I'm not going to write raw audio data to
teh card if I can help it, but do something similar to what tintin
does and have a program generate the tones on the fly. Any experienced
python programmers out there that aren't busy who can help?
Thanks
Kendell clark


On 11/21/2014 03:28 PM, Haden Pike wrote:

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:

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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