[RWP] poise

[Chris Belle]

NO it's the best thing since canned beer, been around since the 90s, works on all versions of windows.
and is free.

It's sort of the perfect thing for a sort of kind of programmer like me who's learning, but what's great about it is when you screw up it'll correct you, and it auto-generates code and you can compile it to an exe.

It's just a text file otherwise, 
you edit which can either run like that if you install the autohotkey, or for those who don['t have it installed the .exe files will run.

www.autohotkey.com

The one draw back to it is it doesn't have the tight integration to individual screen-readers 
like jaws scripts or window-eyes scripts or python might with  nvda, but there are ways to make things speak,
and you can call certain system functions with ahk you can't with jaws or we scripts.

When I was doing my access dev, I chose this tool precisely because I didn't want just a blindie tool, one which would work with a lot of different stuff and not tie your hands.

Some of the reaper folks have been making ahk scripts for some plugs, I've only done them for sonar so far, but at some point I might tackle some for reaper, but programming is way down my list right now the studio is busy.

But what might take me a week to do, Shannon could probably bang out in 30 minutes, 
the manual is great and there are lots of good examples to get you started.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Goldfinga Productions 
  To: Reapers Without Peepers 
  Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 7:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [RWP] poise


  I will have to learn more about this thing. I'm not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm quick to learn.
  And I have a motto, if I don't know how to do it, just hire someone who does.

  But if this auto hot key program would make it easier for him to work, let's go that route until you can do something more permanent. Do we need to install it on our machines as well? How much does it cost, where to get it, blah blah blah. LOL

  On Aug 3, 2013, at 8:43 PM, "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

  > I agree.
  >  
  > The great thing about ahk or autohotkey is that it works with or without a screen-reader.
  >  
  > And since it can be triggered by hot-strings, we can totally avoid hotkey conflicts.
  >  
  > If he wants to release the source code, each of us can customize our keys to our liking.
  >  
  >  
  > ----- Original Message -----
  > From: Goldfinga Productions
  > To: Reapers Without Peepers
  > Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 7:29 PM
  > Subject: Re: [RWP] poise
  > 
  > I think what Shannon also needs is a tutorial on NVDA or something like that. I think some of the problem when we talk to the developers is that we forget that they don't know how to use our software. I think that would probably help them to understand how to help us better if they can speak our language.
  > 
  > On Aug 3, 2013, at 6:50 PM, "Chris Belle" <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  > 
  > > YOu know what Shannon, if your listening in, autohotkey may be a perfect helper tool for this app.
  > >  
  > > It allows mouse movement and macro actions and menus and hotkeys and hotstrings to be created, like if you needed to click on a pad with a hotkey with the mouse you could do it, and it activates that script by the window title.
  > >  
  > > I did sessiondrummer 3 with this thing and it's great, and non screenreader dependant, even sighted folks really dig this utility, it wasn't made for us, but it sure has helped us a lot.
  > >  
  > > The macro recorder doesn't work well with screen-readers,
  > > so I've had to hand code stuff, but it's easy for a sighted person to record macro actions in a hurry.
  > >  
  > > This might be easier than trying to re-design the whole interface for just a few people.
  > >  
  > > I know as the fledgling programmer I am how much that's asking,
  > > once you've used a certain tool to make a synth, and then having to start from scratch to make it accessible.
  > >  
  > > Autohotkey could really be a good bridging utility.
  > >  
  > > Atleast for now.
  > >  
  > > ----- Original Message -----
  > > From: Goldfinga Productions
  > > To: Reapers Without Peepers
  > > Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 5:24 PM
  > > Subject: [RWP] poise
  > > 
  > > Has anyone tried using OCR to see if we can at least click on certain things? I am running jaws for Windows 14. Has anyone had any luck using OCR and loading sounds onto pads?
  > > I'm just trying to see if I can get the most out of this update until the next version is available.
  > > I do believe Shannon is going to complete the work at some point, he is just busy with other projects at the moment. That is totally understandable. I'm just trying to see if I can poke around and accidentally make something happen that could hold us over until the next version comes. I'm also poking around to see if there's any more information that I can give him that might help him figure out exactly what we need.
  > > 
  > > 
  > > GF
  > > 
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  > > 
  > > 
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