Hi Quentin, I have no idea what Dolphin is up to. Like you say the fact they are so proprietary and secretive about the API makes one wonder how much of the core functionality it exposes. With Jaws its API only exposes the functions you absolutely need like JFWSayString(), JFWStopSpeech(), etc.
About the other stuff lets take that off list. I think what we should do is share information back and forth on what we've discovered and exchange source code. I've pretty much decided to write my own library/interface given the fact this is part of a commercial product and I want the function names etc to all match the rest of the engine. Plus to have the ability to recompile for 32-bit and 64-bit platforms as needed. However, I don't see why we can't share source code, ideas, etc to have two fully functional libraries available for use. Cheers! On 11/2/11, QuentinC <quent...@cfardel.net> wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > Do they want to have applications working with their screen reader or not ? > Such an API is normally made for being publicly available. Look at > twitter and google, they are commercial companies but their respective > API are publicly available. Having to pay to use some of the services > provided by the API is another problem. The API itself can always be > downloaded freely. > Dolphin must understand that such an API is made to work with their > screen reader and improve existing applications, not to break, > decompile, crack it or whatever. Being so protective is suspect, it may > proof that their API is bad made and that it allows to do too many > things and/or enter too deeply in their proprietary code. That would be > a valuable reason to protect it so much, otherwise I don't see what's > the problem. > > To be honnest, I haven't considered potential legality issues. I already > use JFW API for ages, and I'm sure FS completely don't care if I use it. > Anyway, their API is so made that you are totally unable to break or > crack something. You can just be collaborative and tell the API to say > something, or run a script. > > > Where I got my information: nothing is really secret there > * JFW: it was a long time ago, in a french blind programming > mailing-list. The creator of SoundRTS sent me a zip containing > jfwapi.dll and corresponding header. Nowadays however, we shouldn't use > jfwapi.dll anymore but use the COM interface directly. I got the > information about the COM interface by using OLE explorer and my though > was confirmed when I read say tools source later. > * NVDA: I have nothing else that what is publicly available, and it's > sufficient. Something is to mention, the return values of the functions > are pretty unclear. I tested myself with my copy of NVDA to exactly > clarify how it works exactly. > * System access: I don't remember who sent me a zip containing the DLL > and the headers, but it was by mail. Only recently I was able to ask > somebody to test. > * Window eye: I just allmost copied and translated from VB to C the code > in say tools package by jamal. I asked somebody else to test it. I was > unable to install window eye demo in a XP VM, the install systematically > crashes. I'm not a window eye customer and don't want to be unless I'm > obliged, so I never contacted them, I think this is rather impolite. > I'm sure we can improve that part of the code. > > One interesting thing about my API is the following: if you quit jaws > and start NVDA, then my code notice that jaws was exited and > automatically connect to NVDA, without quitting the application using > the API. It works also if you do the reverse, quitting NVDA and start > jaws. For window eye and sytem access that thing doesn't work because I > don't have any info on return values from the say functions. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
