I have the alert thing going in skype fine actually. I'm still learning but for now it is under the notifications section under preffences. On Mar 29, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
> Like for Skype. I heard the Growl thing is kind of limited because you don't > get the speech at the same rate as VO necessarily, etc. It's the convenience > things like this I like scripts for in Windows, to have JFW tell me what the > message says as it comes in, to have a hot key to tell me how much time is > left in a song in Station Playlist, etc. I suppose they're not absolutely > required, but the scripts sure make things a lot easier. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Smart" <bryansm...@bryansmart.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 4:09 PM > Subject: RE: Scripting with VO > > > Scripts would be most useful if we culd help VO to speak important > information automatically, rather than requiring you to go and read it > manually. That isn't always appropriate, but can be useful. Right now, > though, Applescripts can't run in response to UI events, so that isn't > possible. > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yvonne Thomson > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 11:14 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Scripting with VO > > Hi, guys > > I think my problem with the scripting thing isn't specifically with > scripting. It's just that nobody's given me an example where being able to > script voiceover itself is useful. I've been doing things like this for more > years than I really want to think about. Use applescript or a shell script to > get information from an application and then use the say command to speak it. > The twitterific example from the podcast, as far as I know and please feel > free to jump in if I'm wrong uses twitterifics applescript dictionary to get > the time from the current message. The fact that you're asking Voiceover to > speak it rather than piping it through say doesn't seem all that much > different to me. The example that comes with VO, reading the time, is the > same way. > > What I'm looking for, I suppose, is an example of someone doing something > more sophisticated. Under what circumstances do you need to actually use the > applescript VO dictionary? Could you use it to mimic something like the jump > to linked item command we mostly use in mail with an application that didn't > have it, for example? What else? > > I guess maybe this should be posted on the developers list instead, I'm not > sure. And obviously, as anyone who's ever read anything from me will know I'm > always tinkering with scripts and hotkeys and launchers and goodness knows > what to add features to apps that don't have them or make things easier to > get to. I've just never been able to pin down any really good examples of > people scripting VO itself for any of it, even though Snow Leopard's let us > do it. So has anyone got any good examples to make this all just a bit more > concrete? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
