On 12/22/2011 01:58 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > i am reallty not doing anything that arcane. the nutshell > of it is that in > > "while (!done loop)" > > gvim [ or another editor that can use abbreviations ] > creates a series of text files. 1 to some N. what it > written to each file is then read aloud via espeak -f; > this application is an attempt to help those who are speech > impaired or mute and have a small laptop. i have been > smallish gadgets that lack a keyboard.
Okay that explains things a little bit better. Why are you involving a text editor like gvim or kate? Shouldn't you just either write the text you want to speak to a file and the espeak that? Or use a pipe to send espeak text? Or maybe use some kind of speaking api (maybe espeak has an api)? If I wanted to espeak something I would use fopen to write the text to a temporary file, then spawn espeak -f to read that. Or most probably I'd use popen() and send espeak the text through a pipe. That's more basic Linux programming than GTK programming of course. > my app is not targeted at people who would use the device > that has a touchscreen [plus hard drive + batteries]. I' > tried one of these things in 2003 and a later model in '09. > my disability is fairly pronounced, but i could barely lift > this box. i believe you could even play games on it. > for me, the screen was not that easy to press. i prefer an > actual keyboard. > if i'm talking to people or a person i am hard to understand > without a few weeks of getting used to my speech patterns; Well you are understandable now in e-mail, and what you are trying to do is becoming more clear. > with a shell script that i put together in 20 minutes, i > could type onto my EEE-900A and the computer would be my > voice. i have been in touch with the people who are > developing the "$100 laptop" that is being used globally. > they said: sure, create a gui app that can be used by the > physically disabled or deaf. Okay so you are trying to come up with a graphical program whereby you can type something (say in a text box) and have espeak speak it so that others can hear and understand you? Do I have this right? > > this morning, i got gvim to spawn a Konsole; espeak echos > what i typed. but while the display button (with other > buttons) can find something i typed earlier, there is no > way to close the display window. i need some means of > putting buttons on the display window. Hmm. Maybe you should post your code so that others can see what it does so far. > in my 11.10 ubunto, the makefile for one zetcode did not > build the top menu bar. the two buttons below were there. > either i'm missing some gtk package, or something else is > broken. [?] I'm not familiar with zetcode. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
