From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 22:14:57 -0500 (EST)
To: yeep <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 
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Would prove a problem for speech synthesizer equipped systems as well
unless characters were either spoken as numbers or descriptor strings
were
associated with each character such that when a cursor was moved on top
of a
character either the number or descriptor string were spoken.
On
Sat, 1 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:

> >Why not sticky key facilities for the alt key such that if a particular
> >combination is used it toggles them on and off.  Maybe alt-s, don't know
> >since
> >someone else may already use that combination.  Once the sticky keys are 
> >on
> >any key that's not on the number pad that's hit generates an error beep.
> >The sticky key mode could also adjust the numlock state as well.
> >once that's done, we're down to logical selection of numbers for
> >functions.
> >One question I have is whether numbers could be entered higher than 256
> >and if so could any
> >response be elicited from those entries once done.  If that's possible
> >the feasible limit is 256-999 and
> >our sticky key mode might automatically add that 255 to every value
> >entered to help provide a little
> >user protection too.  I know mskermit has some pretty unique scan codes
> >that it uses and generates so this might be possible.
> 
> Why not use the same facility my organizer does?
> Let's say that pressing a certain key combo (ctrl-alt-s, for instance)
> loads a special font (with possibly more than 256 chars) and a selection
> menu.
> You then select the special character you want.
> This way you won't need to remember all those funny numerical values of all
> those funny chars.
> 
> I think this could prove a problem for gui's and stuff, though.
> But it's just an idea
> 
> 	Yeep
> 
> 


jude <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>