Re: [orca-list] issues with orca and interactive fiction interpreters

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

I wonder, could fenrir -e take input from tesseract which takes input 
from gargoyle?  Since tesseract is supposed to do ocr, perhaps fenrir 
will then work better.

On Mon, 9 Apr 2018, chrys wrote:

> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 16:32:33
> From: chrys <chrys linux-a11y org>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] issues with orca and interactive fiction interpreters
>
> Howdy Kendell,
>
> >  console one, called frotz, although it can't seem to keep up with the
> >  text very well.
>
> maybe this is not a orca related solution for your problem but fenrir does 
> work with that quite well. just reading incomming events instead of repeat 
> the screen over and over.
> you can use the terminal emulation (so you can make fenrir run in an terminal 
> emulator) with
> fenrir -e
> it starts a shell under control of fenrir.
> >  It doesn't work at all with the graphical one, called
> >  gargoyl, which supports not only text only games but games with sound
> >  and graphics as well.
> this seems to be a custom widget or something like that. maybe there is a 
> interactive mode where you can use your normal terminal with that 
> application?
> another idea what would work with text based stuff is OCRdesktop. just 
> tested. works quite well (also if it is not as comfortable as it can be).
>
> another idea, i did a quick look into the code. it seems to have some kind of 
> TTS support (not sure how to activate or how well it works)
> see at the end of 
> https://github.com/garglk/garglk/blob/master/garglk/config.c
> it contains the following:
> ??? gli_initialize_tts();
> ??? if (gli_conf_speak)
> ??????? gli_conf_quotes = 0;
>
> i also see a section about that in
> /etc/garglk.ini
> in linux it seems to use speech-dispatcher as i can follow the comments.
>
> not sure if anything useful for you. just my 2 cents...
> cheers chrys
>
> Am 09.04.2018 um 14:30 schrieb Didier Spaier:
> >  Below, read:"says the window's *title* and spells ..."
> >  Diider
> >
> >  Le 09/04/2018 ? 14:27, Didier Spaier a ?crit?:
> > >  As an aside, here (Slint, orca-3.27.3), for gargoyle orca says the
> > >  window's and spells what I type at the prompt in the interpreter but
> > >  don't say the displayed text.
> > >
> > >  I tried with two games, busted.dat and 3monkeys.taf
> > >
> > >  Best regards,
> > >
> > >  Didier
> > >
> > >  I tried with two games,
> > >
> > >  Le 09/04/2018 ? 06:48, kendell clark a ?crit?:
> > > >  hi all
> > > >
> > > >  I'm not sure if this has been brought up hear before or not, but orca
> > > >  doesn't seem to like apps for playing interactive fiction (IF) games.
> > > >  These are text programs usually in the zMachine format but they can be
> > > >  other formats as well. There are two apps in ubuntu mate for playing
> > > >  these, one console and one graphical. Orca kind of works with the
> > > >  console one, called frotz, although it can't seem to keep up with the
> > > >  text very well. It doesn't work at all with the graphical one, called
> > > >  gargoyl, which supports not only text only games but games with sound
> > > >  and graphics as well.? Could it be possible to add a plugin for these
> > > >  apps, if it's a simple fix that is? I'd be happy to provide a debug log
> > > >  if needed. This affects both orca master and stable. The console app
> > > >  might be ncurses or something, which may be why orca doesn't care for it
> > > >  much. I'm not sure what gargoyl uses, but orca can read the file open
> > > >  dialog, but can't navigate the app using flat review, and won't read any
> > > >  of the game text.
> > > >
> > > >  Thanks
> > > >
> > > >  Kendell Clark
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