Yes, I accidentally found the system tray with Insert f11, while trying to do something else. I was able to arrow down and find it. That would be something to look into for a future version.
On 2/20/17, valiant8086 <valiant8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > > The biggest change in this update was because I couldn't get it so > everyone could easily get the speakDropbox tray menu open. speakDropbox > is in the system tray. If you're running jaws, if you press insert+f11 > and try to find the speakDropbox icon that way and tab to right click on > it, that may work. If you need to do it using the tray window directly, > press windows+b like normal and try with the arrow keys to find it. If > it's not there, if you do find a notification chevron button or > something like that, press that then continue arrowing around and > speakDropbox should now be visible. Having it show up though is half the > battle, the rest of the fun is getting eht tray menu to open and focus. > I have trouble getting it to take focus for me on some computers. If you > do get it open you can always just press enter on the version number to > automatically update to the latest. Or you can exit and then run the > installer. > > > On more than one of my computers I've had to use the windows task > manager to kill speakDropbox.exe so I could get the install to continue. > I wish my installer could kill it for us on it's own. I tried to make it > work once but didn't get anywhere. I should probably look into that > again. When speakDropbox auto updates itself, it solves this problem by > closing itself immediately after it runs the installer, so hopefully > when the installer gets around to updating files speakDropbox is no > longer running. > > > Good luck! > > > Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates > Developing "very good audiogames" for the blind community > http://valiantGalaxy.com Sent with Thunderbird 38.5.0 portable > On 2/13/2017 12:15 PM, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews wrote: >> I can't find the icon to close version 16, so I can update. >> >> On 2/13/17, valiant8086 <valiant8...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi anyone who uses speakDropbox or is otherwise interested. speakDropbox >>> 17 update just came out a couple days ago. As far as I've been able to >>> tell, I didn't break anything. The most notable change is the settings >>> sub menu in the speakDropbox tray menu is moved into a separate >>> configuration window that you can open and has check boxes and combo >>> boxes and buttons and the like. works around a big bug I was >>> experiencing where I couldn't get the speakDropbox menu to focus when I >>> opened it. I don't imagine folks will have a problem with the change, >>> it's still pretty easy and simple. shift+Alt+windows+m keystroke now >>> opens the configuration window instead of the speakDropbox menu. This >>> should not pose a problem because the configuration window has all of >>> the functionality the old tray menu had. I haven't removed the tray menu >>> completely yet, but the settings sub menu inside is gone. Everything >>> else remains plus a command to open the configuration window. >>> >>> >>> The other major change is that from now on it is able to automatically >>> update itself. those of you running a version before this latest 17 >>> update do have to update to 17 manually if they want it, but from then >>> on it will update to newer versions by itself. It checks 1 hour after >>> launch and then every 6 hours after that. This can be turned off in the >>> configuration window. >>> >>> >>> http://valiant8086.com/applications/speakDropbox/ >>> >>> >>> Hope everyone likes the update and, by the way, no fix for the "Dropbox >>> syncing, Dropbox up to date" messages yet. That'll probably be in >>> version 18. Wish I knew why Dropbox saw the need to change that, it >>> doesn't seem like this benefits people any. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, Aaron Spears, general Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates >>> Developing "very good audiogames" for the blind community >>> http://valiantGalaxy.com Sent with Thunderbird 38.5.0 portable >>> >>> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: >>> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >>> >> > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > -- Pen Name Mellissa Green Founder of A Blue Green Universe website www.abluegreenuniverse.com twitter twitter.com/@abluegreenunivs pinterest pinterest.com/abluegreen For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
