What does this have to do with programming? On 3/8/16, Devin Prater <r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a free text editor that works directly with screen readers. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 8, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Justin Jones <atreides...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have never heard of it. Details, please. >> >>> On 3/8/16, Devin Prater <r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> EdSharp, the text-editor for programmers, should work fine with Jaws. >>>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Justin Jones <atreides...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I guess the final consideration for me is which programming language >>>> plays the nicest with JAWS? As a corollary to that consideration, how >>>> much overhead is required to make the development environment play >>>> nicely? >>>> >>>>> On 3/8/16, Devin Prater <r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> I’m not surprised. Just use a mainstream language, that way you’ll get >>>>> all >>>>> the support you need, because coding can be done anywhere, and is plain >>>>> text. >>>>>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 7:19 AM, Justin Jones <atreides...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I cannot get Quorrum to work. I reinstalled my Java nonsense and >>>>>> played around with a couple of other things, but it will not play >>>>>> nicely with JAWS. It is supposed to, but it does not. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 3/8/16, Devin Prater <r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> My programming class in school was on a languages called Quorum. It >>>>>>> was >>>>>>> made >>>>>>> specifically for blind people, but the IDE it uses is some mainstream >>>>>>> one >>>>>>> with accessibility features slapped uncleanly on top of it, so yeah, >>>>>>> not >>>>>>> all >>>>>>> that nice. >>>>>>>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 5:35 AM, Justin Jones <atreides...@gmail.com> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I remember Pascal... That was a long time ago, though, as I took a >>>>>>>> programming class in high school and that was the language that we >>>>>>>> started with. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'll go take a look at Powerbasic's web site before I make up my >>>>>>>> mind, >>>>>>>> vis-à-vis which language I will try and learn. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 3/7/16, Travis Siegel <tsie...@nfbcal.org> wrote: >>>>>>>>> There's a reason powerbasic has the word power in it's name. If >>>>>>>>> you >>>>>>>>> want >>>>>>>>> to know everything it can do, go read their web page, they have a >>>>>>>>> complete >>>>>>>>> feature set, and you can even download the manuals if you like, and >>>>>>>>> read >>>>>>>>> them in full before ever purchasing the product. I'm not much of a >>>>>>>>> windows user anymore, and haven't been for more than 10 years, but >>>>>>>>> when >>>>>>>>> I >>>>>>>>> do need windows work done, I almost always yank out my powerbasic >>>>>>>>> compiler >>>>>>>>> to do the work, because it's so simple to do it. You can create >>>>>>>>> internet >>>>>>>>> servers with something like 3 or 4 lines of code (they have samples >>>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>>> come with the compiler) and you can build res files that include >>>>>>>>> all >>>>>>>>> your >>>>>>>>> graphics and sounds, that get distributed with your programs, and >>>>>>>>> even >>>>>>>>> compile those res files into the executable, so there's no need to >>>>>>>>> distribute extra files just to make your game work. One single >>>>>>>>> executable, with all the sounds, graphics, icons, and anything else >>>>>>>>> you >>>>>>>>> need for your program to work, and nobody needs to download >>>>>>>>> anything >>>>>>>>> except one single executable file. I know you can do that with >>>>>>>>> other >>>>>>>>> languages too, but it's such a difficult process, folks rarely >>>>>>>>> bother >>>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>>> do this, with powerbasic, it's as simple as creating a text file >>>>>>>>> with >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> filenames, and running the reseditor on it. That's all there is to >>>>>>>>> it. >>>>>>>>> For an example of this, go check out the battleship game I released >>>>>>>>> back >>>>>>>>> in 2002, (I think it's still at >>>>>>>>> http://www.nfbcal.org/tsiegel/battle10.exe) and see what I mean. >>>>>>>>> That >>>>>>>>> has >>>>>>>>> a single executable file, and all sounds are included, and the >>>>>>>>> entire >>>>>>>>> game >>>>>>>>> is still only a couple hundred K in size. I recently wrote a >>>>>>>>> memory >>>>>>>>> game >>>>>>>>> for the raspberry pi, and with all the sounds, it's a hundred >>>>>>>>> megabytes >>>>>>>>> or >>>>>>>>> morein size, and each one of the sound files needs to be present >>>>>>>>> for >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> game to work, because res files don't exist on linux. :) >>>>>>>>> The plus to that is that you can replace the sounds with ones of >>>>>>>>> your >>>>>>>>> choice, so that does help, but still, for ease of use, for windows >>>>>>>>> programming, I've never found anything easier. >>>>>>>>> On OSX (at least early versions of 10.4 and 10.5) Java was my >>>>>>>>> language >>>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>>> choice, because it could build guis with almost no effort, and for >>>>>>>>> my >>>>>>>>> raspberry pi, I use either C or pascal, (depending on what I'm >>>>>>>>> doing), >>>>>>>>> but >>>>>>>>> on windows, I keep going back to powerbasic, because it's so darned >>>>>>>>> easy. >>>>>>>>> :) >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> --- >>>>>>>>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>>>>>>>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>>>>>>>> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>>>>>>>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>>>>>>>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>>>>>>>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>>>>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >>>>>>>>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of >>>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>>> list, >>>>>>>>> please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Justin M. 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