EdSharp, the text-editor for programmers, should work fine with Jaws. > On Mar 8, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Justin Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > I guess the final consideration for me is which programming language > plays the nicest with JAWS? As a corollary to that consideration, how > much overhead is required to make the development environment play > nicely? > > On 3/8/16, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: >> I’m not surprised. Just use a mainstream language, that way you’ll get all >> the support you need, because coding can be done anywhere, and is plain >> text. >>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 7:19 AM, Justin Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I cannot get Quorrum to work. I reinstalled my Java nonsense and >>> played around with a couple of other things, but it will not play >>> nicely with JAWS. It is supposed to, but it does not. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 3/8/16, Devin Prater <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> My programming class in school was on a languages called Quorum. It was >>>> made >>>> specifically for blind people, but the IDE it uses is some mainstream one >>>> with accessibility features slapped uncleanly on top of it, so yeah, not >>>> all >>>> that nice. >>>>> On Mar 8, 2016, at 5:35 AM, Justin Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I remember Pascal... That was a long time ago, though, as I took a >>>>> programming class in high school and that was the language that we >>>>> started with. >>>>> >>>>> I'll go take a look at Powerbasic's web site before I make up my mind, >>>>> vis-à-vis which language I will try and learn. >>>>> >>>>> On 3/7/16, Travis Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> There's a reason powerbasic has the word power in it's name. If you >>>>>> want >>>>>> to know everything it can do, go read their web page, they have a >>>>>> complete >>>>>> feature set, and you can even download the manuals if you like, and >>>>>> read >>>>>> them in full before ever purchasing the product. I'm not much of a >>>>>> windows user anymore, and haven't been for more than 10 years, but when >>>>>> I >>>>>> do need windows work done, I almost always yank out my powerbasic >>>>>> compiler >>>>>> to do the work, because it's so simple to do it. You can create >>>>>> internet >>>>>> servers with something like 3 or 4 lines of code (they have samples >>>>>> that >>>>>> come with the compiler) and you can build res files that include all >>>>>> your >>>>>> graphics and sounds, that get distributed with your programs, and even >>>>>> compile those res files into the executable, so there's no need to >>>>>> distribute extra files just to make your game work. One single >>>>>> executable, with all the sounds, graphics, icons, and anything else you >>>>>> need for your program to work, and nobody needs to download anything >>>>>> except one single executable file. I know you can do that with other >>>>>> languages too, but it's such a difficult process, folks rarely bother >>>>>> to >>>>>> do this, with powerbasic, it's as simple as creating a text file with >>>>>> the >>>>>> filenames, and running the reseditor on it. That's all there is to it. >>>>>> For an example of this, go check out the battleship game I released >>>>>> back >>>>>> in 2002, (I think it's still at >>>>>> http://www.nfbcal.org/tsiegel/battle10.exe) and see what I mean. That >>>>>> has >>>>>> a single executable file, and all sounds are included, and the entire >>>>>> game >>>>>> is still only a couple hundred K in size. I recently wrote a memory >>>>>> game >>>>>> for the raspberry pi, and with all the sounds, it's a hundred megabytes >>>>>> or >>>>>> morein size, and each one of the sound files needs to be present for >>>>>> the >>>>>> game to work, because res files don't exist on linux. :) >>>>>> The plus to that is that you can replace the sounds with ones of your >>>>>> choice, so that does help, but still, for ease of use, for windows >>>>>> programming, I've never found anything easier. >>>>>> On OSX (at least early versions of 10.4 and 10.5) Java was my language >>>>>> of >>>>>> choice, because it could build guis with almost no effort, and for my >>>>>> raspberry pi, I use either C or pascal, (depending on what I'm doing), >>>>>> but >>>>>> on windows, I keep going back to powerbasic, because it's so darned >>>>>> easy. >>>>>> :) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >>>>>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>>>>> [email protected]. >>>>>> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>>>>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>>>>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >>>>>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>>>>> list, >>>>>> please send E-mail to [email protected]. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Justin M. 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