Travis , I found a autormator word flow that lets us run bash scripts from the desktop. Then I wrote the time script. I also found a program called spark that allows you to assign a key stroke to a application. So when I press F16 I hear the time of day. Louie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Siegel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussions on developing for Mac OS X by the blind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 6:05 PM Subject: say time script > Hello folks. Don't know if this will be helpful to anyone, but it > sure helps me. In voice over preferences, you can set the clock to > talk to you every hour, half hour, or quarter hoour. I however, > could find no way to get the clock to show up for me at other times. > I can get it, but all it says is am or pm. (I already know that > part) so I wrote this apple script to do the job. Compile it, check > open, then you can put it in the doc for quick access. > Of course, if it isn't useful to anyone that's ok too, I just figured > I'd post it, since I've not really seen any code posted here yet. > ** cut here** > set thedate to current date > set thetime to time string of thedate > if length of thetime = 10 then > set time1 to items 1 through 4 of thetime as string > set ampm to items 9 through 10 of thetime as string > else > set time1 to items 1 through 5 of thetime as string > set ampm to items 10 through 11 of thetime as string > end if > set saytime to time1 & ampm as string > say saytime > ** cut here** > > _______________________________________________ > Developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/developer_macvisionaries.com > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/developer_macvisionaries.com
