Hello Peggy and all. You can do one of 2 things.
1. If you want to keep a copy of the downloaded script for whatever
reason. Press enter on the download link and choose save. This is just
like downloading any program. It will download to wherever you normally
download programs or files from your browser. Sometimes it's the desktop
and sometimes it's a folder you choose. When the download is complete.
Navigate to the file you just downloaded and press enter.
2. Rather than choosing save, just choose open or run. This will
download a temporary copy of the file and immediately run the package.
This is convenient if you want to install the script package right away
without keeping a copy of the package laying around.
In either case, no matter whether you choose option 1 or 2, as soon as
the package is opened, the Window-Eyes add/remove package dialog box
comes up. It will give you further instructions on installing this
package. You can read the information as it may tell you more details,
or it may tell you if there is a hot key which is used to activate the
script, or it may tell you how to utilize it if there is no hot key.
Just press alt-i to install it. You may be asked to accept a license.
This is dependent on how the script was written. You may be prompted
about other files which the script might replace. For example, the
Thunderbird script which Steve Holmes wrote includes 2 set files which I
wrote. If you have existing Thunderbird set files, installing the script
will overwrite those. Things of that nature might be given. In most
cases however, just press alt-i for install and alt-c to continue.
That's all there is to it. The package will copy the script and its
necessary files to the correct place. The correct associations will be
made. You will not need to edit anything. And the script will be run
automatically if it's a global script. If the script is specific
program, then it will run when the program is launched.
To see what scripts you have installed, press control-backslash to open
the Window-Eyes panel. Press alt-f, m, m and you will be in the script
manager. Now you can up or down arrow to see the list of installed
scripts. You will see if the scripts are running or not. By default it
will show you what is running. So if you have a script which only runs
when a program is open, it will not be listed if that program is not
running. From the script manager you can do various things. The most
important is pressing alt-h and it will bring up the script help and
options for the script you have arrowed to. If the script author has
written in options which you can change, they will be found here. Give
this a try on progress indicator and you will see what I mean by the
choices you can change in it. They are simple radio buttons and check
boxes. What I do for this script is set it to ascending tones, uncheck
the speaking of the percentage. Set the radio for interval and set the
time to 2. This means that an ascending tone will play every 2 percent
of a progress bar. It makes cool sounds when you download pages such as
cnn.com or amazon.com or expedia.com. Also, when you copy files, you can
get a feel for how much of the file has copied based on the tone of the
ascending progress bar sounds.
Hope all this helps.
Many thanks.
Peggy Kern said the following on 9/27/2008 6:29 PM:
Thanks, Raul. It does make sense. I guess my question is, when I go to
Scripts Central, which I looked through last night, and I see a script
that sounds interesting, and I download it, where do I put it? Or will
it automatically put itself into the proper folder to work with WE once
I click on what I've downloaded? I never downloaded updated set files
when we just had those, so this concept of downloading updated stuff for
WE apart from the whole new version of WE is new to me, and I wasn't
clear from what I've been able to read in the Readme and the manual just
how to go about it. But if I can get updated scripts to make WE do fun
things, or improve its performance, I'm interested. <smile>
Peggy
http://kernsac.livejournal.com/
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GW Info Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: A website that doesn't play nicely with WE 7
Scripts are like the pins in your hard drive. Are you interested in
the way the pins in your computer's hard drive work to give you access
to the data? Do you know how to take apart your hard drive and put it
back together? You might, and you might not. Scripts are the same in
that you don't need to know how to write them to be able to use them.
Hope this makes sense.
Peggy Kern said the following on 9/27/2008 1:30 AM:
Hi, all. I've had a few minor annoyances with WE 7 since installing
it a week ago (like it sometimes not reading all the headers as I
arrow through folders in Outlook Express), but I hadn't had anything
truly annoying until this evening when I went to visit a website I
like a lot:
http://www.miraclebabyanastasia.com
I think I've visited the site since upgrading to version 7, but
couldn't swear to it, but tonight every time I went there, my system
would lock up, and I couldn't close Internet Explorer or WE. Perhaps
the problem is with the site though, because I also tried it with my
BrailleNote, and didn't get anything except frame 1, frame 2, but no
text or links.
Maybe you guys, sighted and blind, would like to play with it and see
what it does on your systems?
I glanced at the Readme file when first installing WE 7, but haven't
had time to really read it carefully and thoroughly enough to see if
scripts are worthwhile for someone like me who has absolutely no
interest in programming or making scripts, but who would like to take
advantage of things that make WE work better. I intend to study the
Readme more thoroughly this weekend, and am looking forward to
hearing why I should be interested in scripts. <grin>
Peggy
http://kernsac.livejournal.com/
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