I've never heard of this spark program. It's just what I was after though. Thanks for the tip, I'll go hunt it down. On Dec 20, 2005, at 10:41 PM, louie wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/developer_macvisionaries.com
