Doug, Very nice job!
Thanks, Dave "War remains the decisive human failure." John Kenneth Galbraith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Lee" <[email protected]> To: <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 6:22 PM Subject: [Skypeenglish] Partial Skypewatch for Skype 4.0 released! > Ok, I said it couldn't be done, then I proved myself wrong. Sort of... > > I have put up another small update to the Skype 4.0 scripts that makes > SkypeWatch report incoming calls. Other SkypeWatch features, like > reporting incoming chats, birthdays, sign ins, etc., still don't work > in Skype 4. There is still no text I can get to in the tray alerts, > but for incoming calls, I'm getting enough information from the Live > Conversations list to make it work. > > This also means that the read-last-notification command, > Alt+Shift+F9, will work to repeat the caller's name. The Skype > Command system will also let you examine previous incoming calls, as > in Skype 3. > > As part of this update, I am also making JAWS do a couple little things > to ease interpretation of who is calling: > > If a conference is calling, JAWS will say "conference" as part of the > caller's ID. You will also hear the list of participants, or some of > them at least. If Skype includes an elipsis in the name, indicating > that there are more participants than shown, JAWS will say "elipsis" > so that people (like me) with punctuation turned off will still hear > that there are more people in the conference. > > For SkypeIn calls from US phone numbers, JAWS will say the number like > "+1 888-555-1212," not "+18885551212." This is not perfect but should > be better anyway. I don't know how to help out with numbers from > other countries because I don't know a consistent international way to > split numbers into the right digit groups. I tried various things, > including reading them as all single digits, but I didn't find a way > to do that without either messing up the announcement of times or > making Braille messages look really strange. > > This update is called 4.0c and is, as usual, at > > http://www.dlee.org/skype/ > > under the Skype 4.0 section. > > Enjoy. > > > -- > Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org > SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com > http://www.ssbbartgroup.com > "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them > to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
