Re: reading menu items

2009-09-11 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi Chris, settle on the menu item you'd like to read, and then do VO w twice quickly. HTH and have a great Fri eve! Smiles, CQ :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Ch

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Esther
Hi Chris, I forgot to tell you that the easy way to navigate to the ~/Library/ Preferences folder is to use the Command-Shift-G "Go to folder" shortcut. This brings up a dialog window where you can type in any path you want -- including locations on external drives. So if you bring up a Fi

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Polk
wow! thank you! On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > The custom keyboard commands are stored in the property list files for > each application. This is going to be in a folder named: > ~/Library/Preferences > where the tilde at the beginning means that the folder is und

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Esther
Hi Chris, The custom keyboard commands are stored in the property list files for each application. This is going to be in a folder named: ~/Library/Preferences where the tilde at the beginning means that the folder is under your user account. Plist files have names like com.apple.mail.plist

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There was an article just recently on tidbits.com describing how to assign AppleScripts to PageUp PageDown Home, and End using the "defaults" command in terminal. So I believe these are kept in application specific preference files. I'll bet that Ester goes and finds the article and gives u

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Polk
one more question? Do you know if the custom keyboard commands are kept anywhere so i can back them up? On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > A great VoiceOver shortcut to learn is VO-Shift-C for "Last phrase > copied to pasteboard". You can move over a menu item and,

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Polk
yes yes!!! I appreciate it this is what i was looking for! you are awesome On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > A great VoiceOver shortcut to learn is VO-Shift-C for "Last phrase > copied to pasteboard". You can move over a menu item and, just after > VoiceOver has ann

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Esther
Hi Chris, A great VoiceOver shortcut to learn is VO-Shift-C for "Last phrase copied to pasteboard". You can move over a menu item and, just after VoiceOver has announced it, press VO-Shift-C. If you open a TextEdit window or are in Mail, etc., pasting with Command-V will give you the ex

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread erik burggraaf
No problem. I have been around for a year and a half now, but I only learned that keystroke last month, and it's been a true friend ever since. Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com On 10-Sep-09, at 2:21

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Polk
ah thanks, I am still kind of a new mac user!! I appreciate it! On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:18 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Chris, why can't you just arrow to the option in the menue and hit > control shift c? That will copy the last thing vo said to the clip > bord. Then you could paste it into y

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread erik burggraaf
Chris, why can't you just arrow to the option in the menue and hit control shift c? That will copy the last thing vo said to the clip bord. Then you could paste it into your script. Be carefull of white space if you do this. Otherwise, it should work. Best, erik burggraaf A+ sertified

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Polk
still doesn't answer my question On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:14 AM, was just giving an example william lomas wrote: > > you can't answer a call in skype via a menu > > On 10 Sep 2009, at 19:12, Chris Polk wrote: > >> >> Hi: >> I'm hoping I am just missing something here. >> I am trying to creat shor

Re: reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread william lomas
you can't answer a call in skype via a menu On 10 Sep 2009, at 19:12, Chris Polk wrote: > > Hi: > I'm hoping I am just missing something here. > I am trying to creat shortcut keys in some programs like adium. I have > one working that jumps right to set facebook status, but only because > a frie

reading menu items

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Polk
Hi: I'm hoping I am just missing something here. I am trying to creat shortcut keys in some programs like adium. I have one working that jumps right to set facebook status, but only because a friend told me how the menu item was written exactly. I am unable to read letter by letter in a menu s