Re: [Audyssey] is there a use for monkey term?
Hi. You'd have to evaluate the usefulness of it over other clients on your own, since it's down to individual preference. If you use MTScripts and any of the pre-included xml files, be that the existing soundpacks or you start with default.xml and set it up to connect to a new mud you'll get speech through NVDA, JAWS, Window-Eyes and dolphin hal supernova and system access. NVDA doesn't work with the recent sessions list unless you use screen review. Same for the Funky Monkey tree, can only access that with screen review in NVDA. Screen review is also what you use to review text on the scrollback, but that's no different than any of the other screen readers. NVDA is nice for allowing your screen review cursor to be on the scroll back to review text after it's already arrived on screen and providing separate commands to work with the input box where you type your commands. So without any commands to cycle between screen review and focus you have commands like caps lock l to read the focus, and caps lock up and down arrow to go up and down the scroll back. The reason MT just won't die is that it provides a clean slate that anyone can tweak a little and make it do pretty much anything. Not that other clients don't, it's just different a bit in it's open approach, and for my own part, I started using it when it wasn't quite as extinct as it is now, and I know best how to make it sing so that's what I'm still diddly daddling with. It does run on windows 8.1 as long as the instructions on my website and in the MTScripts installer are followed closely. You need visual c runtime 2005, type that into google and it'll probably be the first result, get 32 bit regardless of actual system arcitecture, mt is 32 bit. If you have any GMA games installed you probably already have this. MTScripts and Monkey Term can both be downloaded from http://valiant8086.com/games/muds/monkeyterm/mtscripts if you click on the install link at the top. It might be a good idea to read over all that I've written on both pages to get an idea of how all this stuff actually works. Cheers, Sent with thunderbird 17.0.8 portableOn 1/27/2014 4:02 PM, Devin Prater wrote: Hi all. At the moment, I use MushZ for all MUD tasks. But, one person still aparently uses monkey term. One problem I have is that NVDA doesn't read the whole thing at once, just line by line. Does monkeyterm support speaking through NVDA? How are the soundpacks for it? sent from the braille plus valiant8086 valiant8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I'm probably stirring up a dead horse at this point, seeing I'm late to the thread, but another nice thing about the task manager, in 7 and 8, and 8.1, is you can hold down the windows key and hit the number corresponding to how many icons from the left on the task bar the item you want is, and it will, A. If the application isn't already running launch it B. if it is already running bring it to the foreground. I make heavy use of this feature to shorten the alt+tab process down to one key press to bounce between Monkey Term and Thunderbird as needed, or flip right over to the chicken nugget window assuming I have it not hidden. I use windows+1 to open internet explorer for instance. how can you beat that? Windows+e opens up the explorer window, and in 8.1 the explorer window, on top of showing your list of drives, lists network drives in a separate category that you can close if you want so you don't have to see them all the time, and it lists important user folders like documents, downloads and such as that right there in the window you get when you hit windows+e. Again, how can you beat that? In windows 7 I would go to start menu and type downloads and hit enter to open my downloads folder. Now I hit windows+e and type dow, just do without the w goes to documents, and hit enter and there I am in my downloads folder. In windows XP I used to use the connect to menu in the start menu to work my way to the wireless networks dialogue box. When I switched to windows 7 a few years ago I became rather upset because I couldn't find an easy way to get to the networks list. I knew how to get there but it was convoluted and not nearly as simple to get to as XP. It took me a few months no kidding to figure out that there is an icon on the system tray that shows what network you are connected to or not connected if none. You can hit enter on that and it brings up a list of wireless networks and dialup and cellular device connections, pluus lists ethernet connections, right there just like that. So that discovery was one of the things that really started selling 7 to me since going through the system tray like that really feels actually a lot easier than xp's way of doing it. usually I know what network I am connected to also so if I'm on my satelite connection I just hit windows+b, type sat and hit enter really quick so the balloon thing doesn't pop up and get me stuck in there (XP does this too so don't go
[Audyssey] is there a use for monkey term?
Hi all. At the moment, I use MushZ for all MUD tasks. But, one person still aparently uses monkey term. One problem I have is that NVDA doesn't read the whole thing at once, just line by line. Does monkeyterm support speaking through NVDA? How are the soundpacks for it? sent from the braille plus valiant8086 valiant8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I'm probably stirring up a dead horse at this point, seeing I'm late to the thread, but another nice thing about the task manager, in 7 and 8, and 8.1, is you can hold down the windows key and hit the number corresponding to how many icons from the left on the task bar the item you want is, and it will, A. If the application isn't already running launch it B. if it is already running bring it to the foreground. I make heavy use of this feature to shorten the alt+tab process down to one key press to bounce between Monkey Term and Thunderbird as needed, or flip right over to the chicken nugget window assuming I have it not hidden. I use windows+1 to open internet explorer for instance. how can you beat that? Windows+e opens up the explorer window, and in 8.1 the explorer window, on top of showing your list of drives, lists network drives in a separate category that you can close if you want so you don't have to see them all the time, and it lists important user folders like documents, downloads and such as that right there in the window you get when you hit windows+e. Again, how can you beat that? In windows 7 I would go to start menu and type downloads and hit enter to open my downloads folder. Now I hit windows+e and type dow, just do without the w goes to documents, and hit enter and there I am in my downloads folder. In windows XP I used to use the connect to menu in the start menu to work my way to the wireless networks dialogue box. When I switched to windows 7 a few years ago I became rather upset because I couldn't find an easy way to get to the networks list. I knew how to get there but it was convoluted and not nearly as simple to get to as XP. It took me a few months no kidding to figure out that there is an icon on the system tray that shows what network you are connected to or not connected if none. You can hit enter on that and it brings up a list of wireless networks and dialup and cellular device connections, pluus lists ethernet connections, right there just like that. So that discovery was one of the things that really started selling 7 to me since going through the system tray like that really feels actually a lot easier than xp's way of doing it. usually I know what network I am connected to also so if I'm on my satelite connection I just hit windows+b, type sat and hit enter really quick so the balloon thing doesn't pop up and get me stuck in there (XP does this too so don't go there especially with the little problem where it would decide you wanted to be on a particular item and every time you tried to arrow away it'd put you back on the item you were already on, ug) and down arrow to the connection I want and hit enter twice, first time it puts me on the connect button, or if it was already connected it focuses a disconnect button. I hit enter the second time and it just connects. What's more, 7 connects to WiFi networks a lot faster than XP. I usually had to wait around 10 to 15 seconds on XP machines to connect to networks, 7 does it in around 3 seconds on average. Not only that, but 8.1 has two sliders above all the networks by which you can turn networks off. There's an airplane mode switch you go to that and you can left or right arrow between off (left) and on (right). If on none of your wireless networks will work unless you explicitly enable them, Wifi has it's own on off switch just below airplane in there which you can use to do this. Windows 8.1 gave us back the ability to say that the desktop environment is what we want by default. it also provides us the ability to make the start screen by default always show all apps instead of live tiles. I tried the all apps thing out originally, but I put it back to live tiles because I like to be able to read the weather so easily. I admit while I'm on this subject though that last time I messed with the built in windows 8.1 weather app I couldn't figure out how to change the location. Only reason it works good for me now is my computer figured out (with my permission) where I am and set it up for me. So many people just totally trash the new start screen. I sort of like it, wouldn't mind a more linear way to navigate it if I desired, but on the whole it's kind of nifty. But while I say that, I don't use it very often. I put shortcuts to stuff I use most on the desktop, and that's working ok. There's no problem with hitting windows+m , typing top and hitting enter to launch topspeed. One thing my friends have really been upset about windows 8.1 over is the new task manager. While I would have to agree that the new task
