Hello. To answer your question about screen readers, basically, a
screen reader reads in synthesized speech what a sighted person would
read on their monitor. The way it works is that the program gets
information from the operating system about what is on the screen.
This means that on Windows, applications that use common Windows
controls usually work well with screen readers. If an application
doesn't use the common Windows controls, it probably won't work
because the screen reader can't get the information that it needs from
the operating system. On Mac OS 10, graphical applications need to
use the Coco interface in order for Voiceover, Mac OS 10's built-in
screen reader to work properly with the application.
I hope this is a good explanation.
On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:20 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Ryan Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, I tried to compile FPGUI using build.bat on Windows
earlier today
and I got an error.
It should now be fixed in revision 1051. Please get a svn update and
try again. The windows build.bat file did not try and create the lib
output directory, if it didn't exist. The unix shell script did. The
build.batch has one limitation, it always assumes the
..\lib\i386-win32\ output directory, so if you run a 64bit FPC
compiler, you will have to manually create the ..\lib\i386-win64\
directory before running the batch file.
Anybody know how I can store the output of a program into a variable
in windows batch files? I'm trying to capture the following output
like I have done in the unix shell script.
fpctarget=`fpc -iTP`-`fpc -iTO`
By the way, does FPGUI use Windows API on Windows? If it does
that's good because the GUIs it creates are probably accessible to
screen
readers.
If you mean, does it use the Windows common controls, then the answer
is No. fpGUI is a custom drawn toolkit. All components are drawn by
the toolkit itself. That is how it accomplished a uniform look & feel
across platforms. fpGUI's GDI backend does obviously use the Windows
API for drawing etc, but doesn't use the common controls.
I'm curious... How do you manage to create a GUI or use a GUI program
if you are blind? Sorry, I don't know how screen readers work?
Regards,
- Graeme -
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