I am willing to pay for scripts.
I look at scripts just like any other software and am willing to pay for
software that is of use for me.
but, I am also greatful when people give scripts away ... just like some
software is now.
I would be interested in a list of programmers and costs per hour or project
... just incase I need something written just for my needs.
I may even pay to have a script written for me and then give it away.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Ferguson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: Scripts I would Pay For
Hi Everyone,
I would hope that we should never have to pay for scripts.
If I can ever learn how to write scripts, I would give them away freely.
Many people such as myself, can't afford to pay for scripts.
Just my thoughts.
Pat Ferguson
At 03:56 PM 1/4/2009, you wrote:
I finally, sort of, made the switch to WE 7.01. I immediately started
thinking about ways to make my work faster, more efficient, and more
productive by using scripts.
I had actually become rather good with JAWS scripts. After plowing
through a tutorial on Visual Basic and the Window-Eyes Help system on
scripts, I'm beginning to doubt whether scripting will make me more
productive -- at least if I have to write the scripts myself.
I went to Script Central and found some nice scripts. I particularly like
the "Append to Clipboard" script. There were lots of cute scripts, but
not all that many productivity-enhancing scripts. Of course, this could
all be a function of the way I work, but II'm guessing there are others
out there who wuld rather do their jobs than learn VB Script and wuld even
pay for productivity-enhancing scripts.
Here are a few examples:
Jump to Element in Word:
WE already provides a nice facility for jumping to the next revision (in
track changes), the next bookmark, the next comment, and so-on. Why not a
function to jump to the next heading or the next table? Word itself
offers this functiion, sort of, in the "Go To" menu, but it is decidedly
awkward. I shouldn't think a script would be that hard to write.
Style Picker:
Most of us who learned word processing with WordPerfect (or earlier
programs) still rely on direct formatting, even though every Word trainer
decries this practice, encouraging us to use styles. There are some handy
styles built into Word, and I have created Word templates with many, many
fore. The Word short-cut key is control-shift-S. That, of course,
conflicts with the "read status" command in Window-Eyes. Even when using
the bypass key and following it with the control-shift-S command, what one
gets is not a list box of styles in alphabetical order that one can scroll
down or jump to with a key. Instead, one has to press Alt-O (for format)
go to "styles." Even then, the listing is decidedly uncooperative, not
readily responding to letter jump commands. Then, when one has applied
the style, the nasty task pain remains on the screen. That can drive you
nuts until you realize what's going on and close it. I would pay for a
style picker script that let me press a key, scroll down a list of scripts
or jump to the "lists" with the letter "l", and allowed me, by pressing
ENTER, to apply the script, close the dialog box, and get rid of the task
pain.
"Or" searching in Word
OK, I may be getting more ambitious here, but I'll bet I've had 100
instances in the last 30 days where I would have loved to have found the
next occurrence of one word or another, e.g., "compensation" or
"remuneration," to give you the last instance or, even more complex,
either a DeltaView "insert" style or a DeltaView "delete" style. Yes, one
can search for formatting, styles, and even special characters (like
charrage return) in Word. Word, however, insists on searching for one
item at a time. That seems primitive, and perhaps my gripe is with
Microsoft, but I would pay serious bucks for a script that would search
for alternate terms in Word.
Macro Stuff
I find that 90% of the script functionality (beyond those mentioned above)
are really almost macro-like. Yet, simply simulating a tab key press, an
up arrow, a carrage return, and the like, within a script, seem to be
mysteries. I couldn't find them at all in the Window-Eyes object model,
and I'm 50 pages into this VB tutorial and still haven't found what I
should think would be the most useful things one could do with a script.
I have a somewhat proprietary applicatiion where information is displayed
in a phantom list view and reclassing doesn't help. A script which, for
example, let me press
Alt-down arrow as a hotkey (I can do that part of the script) and have it
press the down arrow key, route the mouce to the cursor, turn speech off,
jump 2 clips to the right, turn speech back on, and then read the next
clip should be an easy script. It would be immeasurably valuable, but,
well, it is presently beyond me.
So, maybe I'll just go back to being a lawyer.
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