Good morning, list members,
Joseph Dunn submitted a couple of scripts to the list awhile ago that
displayed the icons in the system tray. I compiled and successfully used
two versions of Joe's scripts, including the newest version. I see no
difference in the way that any of them perform. Everything works quite well
except for one interesting characteristic.
There are always three icons that are resident in my system tray:
(1) The Eloquence-associated volume control icon;
(2) Norton AntiVirus 5.0 Program Scheduler; and
(3) Norton AntiVirus 5.0 AutoProtect Enabled, going from left to right in
the system tray.
I can always confirm this by routing the PC cursor to the JAWS cursor,
setting screen echo to Say All, and slowly moving the mouse across the
system tray with the SHIFT-ALT-right or left arrow. Now, when I'm working
in Outlook 98, all of these three icons are displayed, and I can select and
activate any of them; no problem. But I find that when I'm in any other
application, like MS Word 8.0, Excel 5.0, WordPad, NotePad, etc., The script
only informs me of the presence of the Volume Control in the task tray. And
if Outlook 98 is running in the background I am informed of another icon,
Sort In Descending Order, also in the task tray. That's it. Using the
above-described icon-locating procedure tell me that this is not the case .
Granted, I've not recently been using other programs like a clipboard
enhancer that might leave other icons in the system tray, but I find my
observations to be quite enigmatic. Has anyone else experienced this
result? Can anyone possibly explain why this phenomenon is occurring?
By the way, I would ask those of you who can futz around for awhile to
try and read some or all of the text with the new version of Eloquence. I
had an intense distaste for the older version, but I find the revamped
version to be a great deal crisper with respect to pronunciation. I must
say, however, that the intonation is rather curious, some words or parts of
wordcombinations are "swallowed," and, as Patrick Burke and others have
noted, there are definitely bugs in the punctuation feature. I like the
e-mail addresses being spelled out when punctuation is set to off. Also,
the intonations used to account for dashes and semicolons in this mode are
highly desirable; I only wish they were there when punctuation were set to
"some", for example. Oh well, enough of my rambling!
Best Regards
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Pat Acquaviva
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