Hi Juan: Would it be possible to define a window around the last part of the title and define that window to be silent, thus causing that part of the title not to be spoken? It might be a little extra work at first, but at least your ears are not going to explode or fall off or whatever. (grin) Kevin Huber
On 4/13/10, Juan Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with this posting > > > From: David > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:10 PM > To: WE English mailing list > Subject: Window titles - feature request > > > In the Verbose menu of ACTIVE, It is possible to check the box for having WE > report your Window Title, whenever you land on a Window, i.e when > Alt-Tabbing. This is a nice feature, but it has a small drawback: > > If you, for instance, alt-tab to your Notepad window, it will read 'My > Document.txt - notepad'. Same in Internet Explorer, and in Outlook Express, > it would read the Folder, and then tell you it is in 'Outlook Express'. It > is nice, in some cases I guess, to have the full window title spoken. But in > most cases, I only need to know ONE of the two parts of the Title. In most > cases, when I alt-tab through my open windows, I don't need to be reminded > if I am in Notepad, Internet Explorer, Word or whatever. All I do need, is > to know, exactly which document/webpage/folder I am in. In other words, it > would be enough for me to hear 'My Document.txt', 'GWMicro.com', 'Inbox', > and so forth. Specially the way it is now, you get tired of hearing all the > application names spoken, when you do an excessive amount of alt-tabbing > back and forth through a couple of hours. Say you have a Word document open, > and then do some research on the internet, making notes in Word. You Alt-Tab > to Word, get the 'Notes.doc - Word', message, do a bit of typing, Alt-Tab > back to IE, and hear 'Wikipedia.com - Internet Explorer', spoken. Do this > Alt-Tabbing back and forth 20 times the next hour, and your ears are filled > to the extend, they are about to fall off, with the 'WORD', and 'INTERNET > EXPLORER' phrases. In general, it is to be prefered, that you get the least > amount of words spoken, that is needed to have you do your job the most > effectively. Well, at least for oldtime-runners, this will be the case. > > So, could there please, be an extra checkbox in the Verbose menu, that would > tell WE whether or not to include the App-name in the Window title? It sure > would have made my ears happy, and I guess many with me. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 1425 of my spam emails to date. > The Professional version does not have this message. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
