Two good minds run down the same channel. I told him that before I saw
your message.
At 06:45 AM 10/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>You could have reconfigured the whole key board in less time than it took
>you to write your essay.
>
>Dave
>
>At 12:37 AM 10/19/99 -0500 Ron Milliman Wrote:
>I am afraid I simply can not sit here and read any more and keep my
>keyboard shut, so to speak. Why should anyone pay the price for a program,
>like JFW, and then, have to go in and completely reconfigure the entire
>number pad to get it to speak correctly or in a manner that will not annoy
>the purchaser every time he/she uses it?
>
>This is absolutely ridiculous, and it was made abundently clear to HJ
>before this last release was released!
>
>Now, maybe some of you have nothing better to do with your time than to go
>in and fix HJ's bugs, but I simply do not have the time nor the desire to
>do that, and I know I am not alone here on this point.
>
>The comments I made before on this list were perhaps not conveyed
>adequately, but I meant then, and still stand on my position, that HJ
>should have caught many of these problems in-house before turning it over
>to the beta testers on this list, and then, many of the problems and
>concerns mentioned repeatedly on this list were either ignored or otherwise
>not included in this last release, even after many of you put in
>considerable effort in trying to help the process. Instead, we are already
>informed that a bug patch is forthcoming for the release they just
released.
>
>Do not misunderstand. I have been a strong supporter of JFW and HJ, and I
>still am. It is the best product of its kind on the market. However, this
>last series of betas and near releases has created a lot of confusion and
>controversy, which could have been avoided by slowing down the process a
>little and working the product through a few more itterations in-house and
>then, with the HJ selected beta testers.
>
>Ron Milliman
>At 09:45 PM 10/18/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>>You don't have to do any script writing to take that numpad out of those
>>numbers. Here is how you do it. It is tedious, but you must go through
>>each number.
>>
>>1, press insert numrow+6 for config file,
>>2, press shift+control+d for default,
>>3, press alt+s for settings,
>>4, press k for keyboard,
>>5, press n until you hear numbers,
>>6, start arrowing down to each number,
>>7, tab twice to change key,
>>8, press the space bar to change it,
>>9, Now, type in just the number, and press enter,
>>10, keep this up until you have finished number 9,
>>11, tab to ok,
>>12, press alt+f4, twice,
>>At one of those times, it will ask you if you want to save changes, then
>>press enter on yes, and now you will only hear the numbers when you press
>>the numlock, and start pressing numbers.
>>At 12:22 AM 10/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>>To answer your rudely worded question about what's wrong with hearing
>>>"numpad" every time a key on the numpad is pressed, many of us like to
>>>enter numbers with the numpad instead of the top row of the typing
>>>keyboard. It is much quicker to varify what we're typing if we don't
>>>have to hear "numpad" before every digit! Your post also makes the
>>>rather strange assumption that we are all intimately familiar with
>>>scripts and how to change them. This may come as a shock to you, but
>>>most of us are computer users, not computer programmers. I am very
>>>grateful to the script writers on this list who have given a great
>>>deal of help, realizing that most people have very little knoledge
>>>about programming.
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: Steve Matzura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Sent: Saturday, October 16, 1999 3:49 PM
>>>Subject: Re: jfw 3.31 final release!
>>>
>>>
>>>And what on Earth is so wrong with this behavior, and why on Earth
>>>would you consider it a bug? If the script says SayString("NUMPAD")
>>>then it's gonna say Numpad. If you don't like it, then rip it out.
>>>That's why they give you the source to the scripts in the first place.
>>>
>>>On Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:52:14 -0400, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi Chris
>>>>
>>>>I also found the same things with jfw 33135.
>>>>
>>>>If you don't mind me asking how do you go about correcting the num
>>>pad
>>>>problem only for now since i only got jfw 3.30 with a new p2 w98
>>>system
>>>>early in june.
>>>>
>>>>thanks in advance...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>Walter
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