Hi Doug, I am trying to both show off, and encourage, scripting within Window-Eyes. I have hopes this might raise enough interest in WE scripting to cause other commercial scripters to offer their products for WE. Also, I'm quite aware of the extremely competitive world of screen readers, and I frankly want to give support to the one which I believe is both technically superior, and more considerate of its customers.
I developed it inside of WE specifically to show what a quick and easy development environment they provide with their scripting. I believe it's a significantly under-appreciated feature of WE. Yes, it could exist outside of a screen reader, but it would have taken me significantly longer to develop, and I wouldn't have ended up learning WE scripting to the extent that I have. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Doug Lee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 1:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Latest beta of Remind Me Where app I am admittedly curious why you wish specifically to prevent your work from being used in an environment outside of Window-Eyes. I have been known to encourage translation of my scripting work into other environments, for the improvement of usability of apps across screen readers. If you're worried about use outside of a screen reader, this would usually mean the app/script could exist without one, which raises the question of why it is coded as part of a screen reader in the first place. I am, of course, not trying to attack or diminish your work, as I admire what you have managed to do since the inception of Window-Eyes scriptability. I'm just wondering why the restriction. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 01:39:44PM -0400, Chip Orange wrote: Thanks Rod! BTW, to anyone who is a scripter: I've published this version as encrypted VBScript only to keep it from possibly being copied and used in other environments other than Window-Eyes. It doesn't mean I'm not willing to allow others to see the source code, once you agree to not sharing it with anyone else and not using it in any environment other than Window-Eyes. It's about 17000 lines at the moment, so if there's something you'd like to do in particular, I could also try to pick out just that snippet for you. The only technique I can think of which could be useful to others is working with web sites which return XML data. I certainly had to teach myself quite a bit to do that. The other thing I've taught myself might be called advanced dialog use and design. I hope to have the time to create a class session on that; I see now it would be more useful than the ones where I covered individual controls. Chip From: Rod Hutton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2014 10:44 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Latest beta of Remind Me Where app Hi Chip, Good for you for slugging it out and offering such a wonderful app. I encourage everyone to give it serious attention. Much thanks, Rod On 5/25/14 6:04 PM, Chip Orange wrote: Hi all, If anyone would like to try the latest beta of the Remind Me Where app, it can be downloaded from: [1]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11745142/Remind_Me_Where.wepm This is beta 0.3.0; it has the entire user interface significantly redesigned to be simpler and easier to use (thanks to very helpful feedback from beta testers). The options for getting directions has been improved, with more choices (hopefully also being simpler to use). Documentation has been enhanced. Here's the description: Provides access to Google+ Places and directions (walking, driving, or using the transit system!), allowing you to make use of your current location or to specify locations from your database of points, or a street address, or a GPS receiver, or an IP address. This app lets you search for any type of place near you (searching can be based on quite flexible criteria), or just to see all the places which are near-by. The directions can be driving, walking, or public transit, and the from and to locations can be specified by address, pulled from your own points database, or pulled from the searching of Google places. Anyone lucky enough to live in a city with Google transit information should really get a lot out of the directions especially. I keep planning to add more for those with a tablet/laptop and a GPS, but right now, the app has changed towards being mainly used as a way to explore a city and to plan your routes. I would appreciate suggestions. (please don't forget to go into the options and enter your default location after installation). Thanks. Chip Orange [2][email protected] References 1. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11745142/Remind_Me_Where.wepm 2. mailto:[email protected] -- Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand mailto:[email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done." --Helen Keller
