Dear Doug, Do we have to reinstal skypewatch after updating to these new scripts? JP http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel
----- Original Message ----- From: Doug Lee To: SkypeEnglish at emissives.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:40 PM Subject: [Skypeenglish] Beta release of Skype 4.1 Scripts is posted! This is not a normal full release yet, it is a beta release for people that want to play with it and report any problems. These have so far been tested by two people, one of whom is me. :) I'm making these available now just so people can get some of the benefits of Skype 4.1 as soon as possible. Very important note: This script set is for the public Skype 4.1 release only. Do not use this version with any older Skypes, not even 4.1 beta versions. The specific Skype version number for which these scripts are valid is 4.1.0.136. A JAWSKey+Ctrl+V should tell you the version number, as will the Help/About box, though you'll have to pick the version number out of a lot of speech if you use that method, because the JAWS cursor will not find the text of that box in Skype 4.1. There is also one "word of warning" below that I recommend everyone read before downloading and installing these beta scripts. The online documentation is not updated yet, but here is a short description of updates off the top of my head: SkypeWatch works again as it did in Skype 3.8! Use the JAWS Verbosity Options "SkypeWatch Messages Enabled/Disabled" to turn on/off the whole feature, and use the Skype Options > Notification Settings checkboxes to pick which things will be reported. Every one of them should now work. The installation procedure for SkypeWatch, sorry to say, has not improved though. Alt+numbers/arrows in a conversation will tell you when a message is new, not delivered, or edited. F2 will work in the Contacts list to rename a contact instead of trying to toggle chat message time announcement. Pressing Alt+Shift+F4 twice quickly will close Skype immediately, ending any active file transfers, calls, etc., without asking for further confirmation. This is to work around the Skype 4.1 public release's problem with letting us use the system tray icon and its context menu. If you have unloaded and reloaded JAWS or loaded and unloaded another screen reader and managed to confuse Skype into thinking there is no screen reader running, the scripts will now detect this and tell you about it. This alert will come in the form of a fairly conspicuous and unusual BEEP sound, followed by about a second or two's pause, followed by the display of a virtual buffer describing the problem and what to do about it, including a link to a lot more info on the issue from my web site. One word of warning: This script set uses a feature that helps JAWS read the About box by virtualizing it. The feature is present in JAWS 7.0 through 10.0, but there is some question as to whether it will remain present in future. The feature has the unusual side effect of making all of your installed JAWS versions virtualize the About box if you have done it once in any one JAWS version on that computer. This shouldn't hurt anything, but it is unusual enough to deserve mention. This feature will not work in, and will have no effect on, JAWS versions older than 7.0. Known Issues: When you start playing a voicemail, click a history link (yesterday, 7 days, etc.), or activate any other button or link in a chat message list, you may start getting a rapid continuous series of beeps. These are harmless and will stop when you arrow off of your current chat message line. I still have to figure out what's doing that, but it's probably my fault. :) Fields in the Options dialog may not be named as well now. Skype actually included a lot more field names, but apparently something changed right before this Skype release in how group boxes are named, so that JAWS is not speaking the names even when they are there. I have to research this issue further, but again, I think this is an incompatibility between Skype 4.1 and the current scripts, not between Skype and JAWS itself. To get an idea what JAWS should say when things are working right, try JAWSKey+Tab on fields in the Options pages. Ok, after all that, here's how to get these if you still want them: Direct URLs: Full installer: http://www.dlee.org/skype/jfw-skr41b_beta2.exe Source and JAWS 10 binaries: http://www.dlee.org/skype/jfw-skr41b_beta2.zip -- Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that itwill never begin. -- Grace Hansen 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
