Hi, Sorry about the previous lack of instructions for getting everything set up. I am going to try and attach the file this time. I wasn't sure that the list's mail handler would allow attachments. The file goes in your ~/.orca directory. Here are the key presses in the newest script. orca-d speak and/or Braille the date orca-t speak and/or Braille the time orca-w speak and/or Braille the current temperature and conditions. The time and date are also placed into the clipboard so they can be pasted with a simple press of ctrl-v A note about the weather. I wanted to get the weather from the top panel. In Ubuntu, it is shown with the clock. I couldn't find the information I needed to access this though, so I wrote a script to get the info from Yahoo's weather services. I got to thinking that this may be the best way to do things after all, because I am not sure that all distros have the weather posted with the clock, and even if they do, they may not all use the same program to do it. The only drawback is, if you press the orca-w keys to get the weather and are not connected to the internet there is a bit of significant lag while the script attempts to get the info. IF you do have internet connectivity though, it's nearly instantly displayed. Ok, here's the script, let me know if you need any help with it, if there's something that can be done to improve it, etc. Storm
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"""This script adds time and date functionality to Orca New in this script, time or date can be pasted from the clipboard Adapted by Storm Dragon from the script posted at: http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-6a8c1c2511ba01d7397f68f754eec0d923d166f1 feel free to modify and/or redistribute this script as you see fit.""" import orca.input_event # watches for input that Orca recognizes import orca.keybindings # Handles binding keystrokes for Orca to use. import orca.orca # Imports the main screen reader import orca.speech # Handles Orca's speaking abilities import orca.braille # Displays information in Braille format import re # Not sure #change the next line to your zip code: zipCode = 28624 #places text in the clipboard def setClipboardText(text): import gtk # import the gtk library cb = gtk.Clipboard() cb.set_text(text) cb.store() #getWeather function gets weather from Yahoo def getWeather(zip_code): if zip_code != 0: import urllib from xml.dom import minidom WEATHER_URL = 'http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=%s' WEATHER_NS = 'http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0' url = WEATHER_URL % zip_code dom = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(url)) ycondition = dom.getElementsByTagNameNS(WEATHER_NS, 'condition')[0] weatherReport = ycondition.getAttribute('temp') + ' | ' + ycondition.getAttribute('text') else: weatherReport = "No zip code set: Please edit .orca/orca-customizations.py" return weatherReport myKeyBindings = orca.keybindings.KeyBindings() #Define the sayTime function def sayTime(script, inputEvent=None): import time # imports the Python time library message = time.strftime("%I:%M%p", time.localtime()) orca.speech.speak(message) orca.braille.displayMessage(message) setClipboardText(message) return True #end sayTime function #Define the sayDate function def sayDate(script, inputEvent=None): import time # imports the Python time library message = time.strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y", time.localtime()) orca.speech.speak(message) orca.braille.displayMessage(message) setClipboardText(message) return True #end sayDate function #Define the sayWeather function def sayWeather(script, inputEvent=None): message = getWeather(zipCode) orca.speech.speak(message) orca.braille.displayMessage(message) return True #end sayWeather function #Set up sayTime keys sayTimeHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler( sayTime, "Presents the time.") # Shows the function of the key press in learn mode myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding( "t", 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, sayTimeHandler)) # Sets Orca-t as the say time key #add sayDate info sayDateHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler( sayDate, "Presents the date.") # Shows the function of the key press in learn mode myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding( "d", 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, sayDateHandler)) # Sets Orca-d as the say date key #add sayWeather info sayWeatherHandler = orca.input_event.InputEventHandler( sayWeather, "Get current temperature and conditions.") # Shows the function of the key press in learn mode myKeyBindings.add(orca.keybindings.KeyBinding( "w", 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, 1 << orca.settings.MODIFIER_ORCA, sayWeatherHandler)) # Sets Orca-d as the say date key orca.settings.keyBindingsMap["default"] = myKeyBindings #end time, date, and weather code
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