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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
To: "OpenDOS" <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 19:24:14 +0100
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I gather that a speech syntesizer uses a software driver?
If so, we might me able to change the driver to 'speak' even the weird
chars.

	Yeep


> 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>
>