Ah, so that's how they do it then. Makes sense. Certainly shortens the development curve, doesn't it? -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
On Nov 26, 2010, at 5:37 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: > Hi Buddy, > > Interestingly, I use ProtectMac antivirus, and had to wait while the dmg was > scanned after downloading. I could see the file names inside the .app bundle > as the scan progressed through the disk image. There was a "wine" directory > with a bunch of dll files in it. It seems to be running the eye-pal software > inside a windows emulator. That seems a little odd to me, but it explains why > it runs under x11 and separately from voiceover. > > It will still be totally usable, so there's no problem with this. I just > found it surprising and interesting purely from a technical perspective. > However they do it, I'm glad that there's something I can run on the mac > without firing up a full virtual machine. This is an improvement. > > On Nov 26, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote: > > Well, good news for me. Apparently, all I had to do to use the Zoomex was to > download the software and install it. I really got a good deal, someone was > selling their barely used Zoomex, about a year or 18 months old, had to move > it, so I got a steal. That, plus $200 to get up to the latest version of the > software, and I came out way ahead. No upgrade cost for the Mac version is > even better. > > Some preliminary observations, in case anyone's giving the Eyepal or Zoomex > some thought: > > The software is a self-voicing environment. It's written under X-Window, > apparently, and runs in that environment. Therefore, it's completely separate > from Voiceover, and generally speaking, its controls are inaccessible using > Voiceover. Further, it uses the same Nuance Realspeak Solo voices that the PC > version does, and also uses the same or similar commands to the Windows > version. If you're familiar with the Windows version, it appears that moving > straight across to the Mac will be fairly easy and straightforward. One thing > that threw me at first and wasn't exceedingly well documented was that you > get to the Zoomex (and, presumably, Eyepal) menu with the cmd key, much as > you'd use the alt key to pull down the menu in Windows. It looks like their > design decision was to make the softwre on the Mac look and act like the > software on Windows, so the documentation could be pretty well pulled > straight across with little to no alteration; in fact, Zoomex for the Mac > even mentions that you won't need JAWS. > > I haven't tried a scan yet, but I fully expect that it will work just like > theWindows version of the software. > -- > Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA > Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY > > > > On Nov 26, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > >> For those who are curious and have lots of money, the above subject line >> says it all. This price represents a very substantial discount off the usual >> price of this device, which connects via a usb cable to a Mac or a Windows >> pc and comes with software for either. The demos on the site are rather >> primitive. For instance, there is no screen reder feedback in the >> background, so one must take it on faith that the controls are all >> accessible via the keyboard in some fashion. Of note is the fact that you >> can scan two pages at once of only what they term small paperbacks, which I >> take to mean pocket books. there is no support documentation on line that I >> could find, and thus one has no way of getting an overview of what this will >> actually do, beyond the basics demonstrated in the short demo "tutorials". >> If they have a decent return policy, and you've got the money, it could be >> worth investigating. >> >> Mary >> >> Mary Otten >> motte...@gmail.com >> >> >> -- >> 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. 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