Re: List Membership, please read

2014-06-29 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Would like to stay on Mac-Access with the address

lis...@visorapps.com

Thanks and greetings

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Re: Apple's Xcode tutorial

2014-01-10 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hi Ray,

just some words about the iOS simulator. It is quite accessible. One can move 
around on the simulated screen with VoiceOver, observing its content. You can 
also press buttons, input text and such things. However, it seems that there is 
not always everything visible for VoiceOver on the screen and the feedback to 
user actions sometimes lacks quite a bit. So, it sometimes is a real pain to 
use the iOS simulator and I prefer to test on physical devices.

Greetings

Jan

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Am 09.01.2014 um 20:12 schrieb Ray Campbell ray1...@wowway.com:

 Hi:
 
 There's also a textbook, Beginning IOS Development available on Kindle
 through the Kindle app that is pretty good.  I just completed a mobile app
 development class and as my time allows, I want to get more into the Apple
 Development and see if I can develop a few things.
 
 Laurel, the thing I found totally unusable was the iPhone Simulator on
 XCode.  When you test your apps on XCode, a simulator comes up where a
 developer can test out the app functionality and see if things work.  I
 couldn't use that with VoiceOver.  So, I had to get myself over the fear of
 putting test software on my iPhone to test things.
 
 Thanks,
 
 
 Ray Campbell
 ray1...@wowway.com
 Skype Name: ray650315
 
 Check out my blog at farmers-boy.livejournal.com
 Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/packerbackerray
 Follow me on FaceBook:  www.facebook.com/packerbackerray
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
 [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Donal Fitzpatrick
 Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 12:53 PM
 To: OS X  iOS Accessibility
 Subject: Re: Apple's Xcode tutorial
 
 Hi Laurel and Jeff,
 
 Sorry Laurel, I must have missed your original post over the Christmas
 period.  I more or less tuned out of all email for about two weeks.
 
 I tried that tutorial a while back and got lost.  It’s probably my
 background and training, but I always seem to have more luck following books
 rather than tutorials.  If you’re a bookshare member, they have plenty of
 XCode stuff.  Indeed, all oreilly books are there by default.
 
 Here’s an offer for you:  if you want to take a look on sites like:
 
 www.oreilly.com
 www.informit.com
 www.apress.com
 www.bookshare.org
 
 you might find books you find interesting.  The first thing I’d do is start
 by learning the Objective C language.  All cocoa apps are built on this, and
 a knowledge will help you.  Anyway back to my offer:  If you find books that
 you think might be of use, either post here or contact me offlist and I’ll
 happily take a look for you and tell you what I think.
 
 I’ve not done app development, but I’ve written utilities for mac.  I’m a
 university academic who teaches programming (among other things) so I’ve
 needed to know the basics.  App/application development is my study gig for
 the next few months as I suspect I may get a course in mobile development to
 teach next year.
 
 Definitely look at MV-Dev.  It’s a nice community and nobody gets flamed for
 asking anything.
 
 Hope these ramblings help,
 
 Dónal
 On 9 Jan 2014, at 18:37, Laurel and Stockard laurel.stock...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 Thanks, I applied to join the group. I appreciate this. I know there's
 gotta be a work around, just not sure what it is yet.
 Laurel
 On Jan 8, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Geoff Waaler geoff.waa...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hi Laurel and others,
 
 In my experience, the silence was deafening when posting such questions
 here.  Once I received a private reply suggesting that I join the MV-DEV
 group.  Until recently, that sadly was a dead list, and I assumed that
 StoryBoards and InterfaceBuilder were pretty much unusable with VO.
 Recently, the MV-DEV list has come back to life, and apparently there are
 blind developers who are successfully exploiting these xCode features.  I
 have a lot to learn before I get out of lurking mode over there, but the one
 time I tried the tutorial I was totally lost and became discouraged before
 discovering a work-around.
 
 Anyway, the link for the MV-DEV list is:
 
 http://groups.google.com/group/mv-dev
 
 From recent activity, I would think you'll have much better luck if you
 repost over there, and I will definitely follow the thread!!
 
 Best regards.
 Geoff
 
 
 - Original Message - From: Laurel and Stockard
 laurel.stock...@gmail.com
 To: OS X  iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
 Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 8:53 PM
 Subject: Apple's Xcode tutorial
 
 
 Hi guys, so, I found a tutorial

Re: Seeking Help with XCode

2013-10-15 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hallo Dónal, Ray, and Travis,

I think, there are some message size restrictions in this list. So I sent you 
the sample project off-list.

Greetings

Jan

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Am 11.10.2013 um 10:22 schrieb Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie:

 Hi Jan,
 
 No hurry at all.  Very much appreciated.
 
 Dónal
 On 11 Oct 2013, at 09:06, Jan Blüher, visorApps jan.blue...@visorapps.com 
 wrote:
 
 Hallo Ray, Dónal, Travis, and others,
 
 I will write a little sample project for UI creation in iOS apps. Pleae give 
 me some days ...
 
 Greetings
 
 Jan
 
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 Download im App Store:
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 Am 10.10.2013 um 22:17 schrieb Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie:
 
 Hi there Jan,
 
 This would be fantastic if you had the time. feel free to send off-list if 
 you wish.  My very sincere thanks indeed for doing this.  I'm teaching a 
 course in Human-Computer Interaction and it would be *really* useful to be 
 able to knock up an interface quickly in code rather than messing around 
 with interface builder.  Yes it can be done, but accomplishing this task is 
 the coding equivalent of watching paint dry.  Now, back to Node.js for me 
 for the evening!
 
 All the best,
 
 Dónal
 On 10 Oct 2013, at 13:23, Jan Blüher, visorApps 
 jan.blue...@visorapps.com wrote:
 
 Hi Dónal,
 
 would a little sample project with comments be the right material for you?
 
 Greetings
 
 Jan
 
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 Am 10.10.2013 um 10:01 schrieb Dónal Fitzpatrick 
 dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie:
 
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Re: Seeking Help with XCode

2013-10-11 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hallo Ray, Dónal, Travis, and others,

I will write a little sample project for UI creation in iOS apps. Pleae give me 
some days ...

Greetings

Jan

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Am 10.10.2013 um 22:17 schrieb Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie:

 Hi there Jan,
 
 This would be fantastic if you had the time. feel free to send off-list if 
 you wish.  My very sincere thanks indeed for doing this.  I'm teaching a 
 course in Human-Computer Interaction and it would be *really* useful to be 
 able to knock up an interface quickly in code rather than messing around with 
 interface builder.  Yes it can be done, but accomplishing this task is the 
 coding equivalent of watching paint dry.  Now, back to Node.js for me for the 
 evening!
 
 All the best,
 
 Dónal
 On 10 Oct 2013, at 13:23, Jan Blüher, visorApps jan.blue...@visorapps.com 
 wrote:
 
 Hi Dónal,
 
 would a little sample project with comments be the right material for you?
 
 Greetings
 
 Jan
 
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 Download im App Store:
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Re: Seeking Help with XCode

2013-10-10 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hi Ray,

you want to connect an Ui element that you defined in Interface Builder to your 
code, right? You may try to add the following line of code to your 
ViewController.h file:

@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIButton *button;

where button is the name of your UIButton element. Depending on how you defined 
button in IB, there could be some variation in this line. So it might be a bit 
tricky to establish the connection by hand.I am not sure, wether there is a 
documentation about this mixed approach, since normally the developer would use 
the drag and drop method to do it.

As already mentioned, I do completely skip IB and write all neccessary things 
directly in code. For this button example, I would declare it in 
ViewController.h like this:

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIButton *button;

In ViewController.m I would declare a method for the button action:

- (void) buttonAction:(id)sender {
// some interesting code here
}

Finally, one would create the button element either in the loadView: or 
viewDidLoad: method in ViewController.m:

// initialized the button:
self.button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeSystem];
// define the action method:
[self.button addTarget:self target:@selector(buttonAction:) 
forControlEvent:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
// set a button dimension:
self.button.frame = CGRectMake(10, 10, 88, 44);
// set a button title:
[self.button setTitle:@Button 1 forControlState:UIControlStateNormal];
// add the button to your view hierarchy:
[self.view addSubview:self.button];

You may take a look at the references of
* UIViewController
* UIview
* UIControl
* UIButton
and some others on the iOS developer library for more details. Once you got the 
hang of it, you are much faster than clicking around in IB and Apple's 
documentation will provide you all information you need. Regrettably, most of 
the introduction documents on the Apple Developer Portal rely on Interface 
Builder, since this would be the preferred method for a sighted developer. So 
far, I haven't found a really nice introduction for a VO user. If there is 
someone out there knowing about, please let me know. There are some books 
around for this purpose. I can recommend the iPhone cook book of Erica Sadun, 
which is available on iBooks. However, it will cost a bit of money.

I hope this will help you a bit.

Greetings

Jan

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Am 09.10.2013 um 20:39 schrieb Ray Campbell ray1...@wowway.com:

 Thanks, Jan. i really like working with xcode. Where can I find some 
 documentation on how to connect controls to references in code 
 programatically?
 
 
 Ray Campbell
 Sent from my iPhone
 
 On Oct 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Jan Blüher, visorApps 
 jan.blue...@visorapps.com wrote:
 
 Hi Travis and list,
 
 I do use Xcode with VO for iOS development every day and really like it. 95% 
 or something like that can be done without sighted assistence. The remaining 
 5% have do do with the very correct arrangement of images on the screen.
 
 Although Interface Builder is quite accessible, I do not use it a lot, since 
 I am faster with the programmatic approach. There might be other issues in 
 Mac development that I am not aware of, but I cannot imagine them.
 
 I really do encourage all people to use Xcode. It is quite hard work at the 
 beginning, since it is a complex tool. However, once you got used to it, it 
 is really fun.
 
 Greetings
 
 Jan
 
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Re: Seeking Help with XCode

2013-10-10 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hi Dónal,

would a little sample project with comments be the right material for you?

Greetings

Jan

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Am 10.10.2013 um 10:01 schrieb Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie:

 Dónal

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Re: Seeking Help with XCode

2013-10-09 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hi Travis and list,

I do use Xcode with VO for iOS development every day and really like it. 95% or 
something like that can be done without sighted assistence. The remaining 5% 
have do do with the very correct arrangement of images on the screen.

Although Interface Builder is quite accessible, I do not use it a lot, since I 
am faster with the programmatic approach. There might be other issues in Mac 
development that I am not aware of, but I cannot imagine them.

I really do encourage all people to use Xcode. It is quite hard work at the 
beginning, since it is a complex tool. However, once you got used to it, it is 
really fun.

Greetings

Jan

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Am 09.10.2013 um 14:58 schrieb Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com:

 You've stumbled into the main concern for vo developers.  XCode has gotten 
 better with each successive release, but it still has a way to go (last I 
 checked) Honestly, you've managed to do more with it than I ever did, but 
 then again, I gave up trying after snowleopard was released.  All I can tell 
 you is that there are alternatives to XCode, but they come with their own set 
 of issues.  If you do manage to get XCode to behave properly, I'd be 
 interested in hearing how it was done.  I pretty much gave up developing for 
 osx entirely other than a few terminal apps here and there precisely because 
 of the horrible vo support in XCode and the shear amount of work required by 
 other methods.  Honestly, the only way to develop for osx (imo) is via java, 
 since it happily takes care of the whole gui environment for you.  However, 
 since apple's support for java keeps fluctuating, and sun and apple seem to 
 be at odds over who/how java should be handled on osx, I'm not sure java will 
 remain a viable option much longer either.
 sigh
 Lately, I've gone back to linux for about half of my computing usage.  I 
 switch between osx and linux depending on what I'm doing at any given moment. 
  I honestly thought osx would be my 100 percent os there for a while, but the 
 lack of support for vi programmers has really put a crimp in that for me, so 
 I'm a dual osx/linux user again, and I'm happy with that.  So, if you do 
 manage to get osx to allow you to build a program from start to finish, and 
 you can do so without sighted assistance, and you can make it look the way 
 you want, by all means, let me know, at that point, it may be worth it for me 
 to take another look at osx for development, but until then, I'm staying with 
 my linux/osx combo.
 
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MouseKick update

2013-07-08 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hallo all,

MouseKick version 1.0.1 has just been released. It fixes the orientation bug 
that sometimes messed up the game and training view. Now, MouseKick will always 
stay in landscape, regardless of how you hold your device or whether an 
orientation lock is active or not.

Here again the MouseKick link to the App Store:

http://AppStore.com/MouseKick

Have fun!

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MouseKick for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

2013-06-27 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Dear listers,

I would like to point your interest to my new iOS app MouseKick. It is a game, 
where you have to tap appearing mice in a cheese as fast as you can. It can be 
played by both, sighted and visually impaired users. Apart from the nice 
animation, the mice also do have their individual sounds, which guide us to the 
right position on screen. There is a training mode to learn those sounds. To 
get an impression of the MouseKick-Sounds, please watch the Trailer on YouTube 
at:

http://youtu.be/tLe4ygQA-xM

You can play various game modes, in normal or in blind mode. If you know the 
sounds, the blind mode is a bit easier to play. The app is fully accessible 
with VoiceOver.

MouseKick can be found on the App Store at:

http://AppStore.com/MouseKick

Additional information can be found on the support web site at:

http://visorApps.com/MouseKick

If you have questions, hints, or comments, please contact me over the list or 
off-list at supp...@visorapps.com. Any feedback is very much appreciated.

If you like the app, please recommend it to your friends and rate it in the App 
Store.

Have fun!

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Re: Uploading Screenshots

2013-05-22 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hallo Harmony,

you have to capture the app screenshots on your own. I use the following steps 
in Xcode to do this:

* Run the app on the device you want the screenshots to be taken from.
* Go to the organizer window.
* Choose Devices in the toolbar.
* Interact with the table on the right and go to the device, where the app is 
running on.
* If is not already, expand the device information.
* Go to Screenshots.
* At the bottom of the screen, there is now a number of buttons. The last one 
takes a screenshot of the current screen.
* Above  the buttons, there is a table of all existing screenshots on the 
device. The most recent screenshot is the last in the table.
* The third button at the bottom exports a selected screenshot to wherever you 
want.

You can also take screenshots by pressing the sleep and home button together at 
the same time. The image is then placed in the camera role of the device.

Greetings

Jan

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Am 22.05.2013 um 21:07 schrieb Harmony Neil harmony.n...@gmail.com:

 Hellow,
 I know this is probably the wrong list, but it's about apple stuff, so ...
 Has anyone had any experienc with submitting apps to the IOS appstore?  If 
 anyone has, you would know that you've got to submit apps of a certain size 
 and apparently a certain color.  Can I use the default ones like the little 
 png files that come in the folder with all my program files, or do I have to 
 capture my own?  If I can, which ones should I use, but if not, how would I 
 go about capturing a a screenshot of an iPhone app?
 Thanks,
 Harmony.
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Re: Yet Another, Question, About Xcode

2013-04-06 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hallo,

for iOS, it is possible to write application code in C++. However, as far as I 
know, you always need a core structure in Objective-C containing the main class 
and an AppDelegate implementation. I would also recommend to implement a view 
controller to provide a core user interface. You get this basic structure when 
creating an empty project in Xcode.

From this basic Objective-C classes you can call C and C++ functions or 
classes.

Greetings

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Am 06.04.2013 um 05:05 schrieb Harmony Neil harmony.n...@gmail.com:

 OK, This is completely annoying me to say the least.  Can anyone advise me on 
 the best settings for an iPhone and a Mac application please?  I want to use 
 the c++ programming language, but so far nearly everything I've seen has been 
 about objective c.  I thought you could use any programming language you 
 wanted, or is it Apple law that you have no choice but to use objective c?
 I don't want anything fancy for my programs, just to have it in its own 
 little window rather than command line stuff, and i only really want the code 
 I put there, not a load of other files. I did try using g++ which compiles 
 stuff just fine, but if I'm to make my programs into .app files or whatever, 
 I've got to use xcode I guess, since if I compile with g++ and then give my 
 executable file the .app extention, I get the message saying that the classic 
 environment is no longer supported.
 Sorry for the cross posting to the lists, but I seem to be getting nowhere 
 with this and google is not my friend.  Well, the only stuf I have found is 
 mainly old stuff.
 Thanks for any suggestions etc though.
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Version 2.0 of the ColorVisor is out

2012-10-24 Thread Jan Blüher, visorApps
Hallo list,

today, Version 2.0 of the ColorVisor has been released and is now available on 
the App Store and for update. There are a number of new features. Some of them 
are:

* There is now a better color naming due to refreshed reference color palettes.
* You can choose to identify only basic colors or differentiated color shades.
* VoiceOver verbosity during the color scan is now configurable. By default, it 
does not announce color names during camera calibration processes.
* Additionally, a sound is played when the camera is calibrating itself. This 
two things avoid the announcement of wrong color names during the calibration, 
which was a problem in former versions.
* The CMYK color components were replaced by HSB.

VoiceOver support is still unbroken and you can configure the ColorVisor to 
behave as in former Versions.

The ColorVisor and even more details can be found on the App Store at
http://iTunes.com/app/ColorVisor

More information and a user manual are available on the ColorVisor support page 
at
http://visorApps.com/ColorVisor/

If you have any questions, hints, or comments do not hesitate to contact me via 
this list, on my web site, or by using the new in-app support request. Any 
feedback is much appreciated.

Greetings

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