I hope no one misreads this as harshness, but I need to say this even though there is that risk.
Some SkypeWatch users are installing SkypeWatch by adding a line to default.jss. This is what I call the "old way" of doing it. The "new way" involves creating a new default.jss file to load Skypewatch. Up until now, I have built in support for both ways of loading SkypeWatch. However, a recent event made me notice a problem with the old way: If you update JAWS, such as via Check For Updates, the old way will effectively cause you to run an updated JAWS with obsolete default.jss code. This in turn can cause any number of difficult-to-diagnose problems, up to and including complete breakdown of JAWS functionality. Given this problem and the fact that there is now an automated installer for SkypeWatch using the new method, I am announcing at this point that the next Skype script release will no longer support the old method of running SkypeWatch. The old way only works now because I added code to force JAWS to keep pinging Skype to ask if something had happened, since in the old way, Skype is unable to tell JAWS this directly via events. This "pinging" approach is not as reliable and cannot be made so. Though my decision is not prompted directly by this week's JAWS 11 security update, I will mention that what I am doing will also have the effect of making sure that any such JAWS emergency updates in the future actually install and function correctly for SkypeWatch users. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause people, but since the new SkypeWatch installation method is now automated, I'm not expecting that to be much inconvenience anyway. If you installed SkypeWatch the old way, the way to update to the new way is now as follows: 1. Delete default.jss and default.jsb from your user folder. Not shared, but user. 2. Run Hrvoje's SkypeWatch installer, which will build the new default.jss and set everything up for you. Finally, to those worried about crashing their systems using the new way, that problem should not happen now that there is an automated installation program. Such crashes were always caused by accidents during manual setup of the new default.jss file, which is why the now infamous procedure on my web site is riddled with stern warnings. :) -- Doug Lee [email protected] http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group [email protected] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry." {African} 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 To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] to download a tool that will help install skypewatch for jaws users, go to this link. http://free-zg.t-com.hr/hkatic/swsetup.html and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
