Re: Read Etexts problems with speech-dispatcher resolved -- mostly

2008-08-09 Thread John Gilmore
As noted here before, using a multi-threaded activity interferes with power management. Read Etexts will have functioning power management if speech-dispatcher is not installed, but will not if it is installed, even if you never use the Speech feature. I did explore a few solutions to

Re: Read Etexts problems with speech-dispatcher resolved -- mostly

2008-08-01 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi James, As noted here before, using a multi-threaded activity interferes with power management. Read Etexts will have functioning power management if speech-dispatcher is not installed, but will not if it is installed, even if you never use the Speech feature. I know Hemant Goyal was

Re: Read Etexts problems with speech-dispatcher resolved -- mostly

2008-08-01 Thread James Simmons
Hemant, Thanks for the reply. I'll try to get to using those new RPMs when I can. I hope the Python fix does the trick. It would save me from having to rewrite the Activity. I understand about the instructions for installing the RPMs not being on the Wiki. I just mentioned that for the

Read Etexts problems with speech-dispatcher resolved -- mostly

2008-07-28 Thread James Simmons
I have just updated the Read Etexts activity to version 6. This solves the problems I was having with pausing and resuming speech in the activity. The activity no longer hangs when you do this. Highlighting still doesn't work perfectly; it tends to fall behind and catch up. This is an