Thanks Chip. Yeah, water problems are about the worst nightmare for any
home owner. And they're damn hard to deal with.
Regarding Sound Forge? Yeah, it would be a big scripting project to say
the least. There have been Jaws scripts for it for years. I don't know
the price, but I know they're not free. And yes, it would be a good
opportunity to make Window-Eyes scripting shine. I say that because I've
heard podcasts on the Jaws scripts, and while they are certainly very
useful, they also reveal the limitations of Jaws scripting if you know
enough about the program. I initially thought it was just the scripter's
choice. But being the traitor I am, I learned a little about Jaws
scripting when I tried to help an old friend who had no real programming
experience and landed a big commercial job scripting. But my help ended
up being meaningless to him because the proprietary implementation of
Jaws scripting is quite unconventional to a programmer. therefore, even
the most elemental concepts I talked about with my friend did not apply
to Jaws scripting. And I was blown away at the enormous amount of code
often required to coax it into doing something which would require a
line or two of code in BASIC. If I remember correctly, there was never
even such a thing as an array until version 11 or something like that.
Well, enough about that. Sound Forge comes in at least a couple flavors.
There's Sound Forge Pro and a light version. The pro version is (I
think) about 400 bucks; I forget now. I upgraded from 9 for I think a
couple hundred. And I think the light (home) version is about a hundred
bucks. And of course the million dollar question is: would a script
written for the pro version work on the light version? I would think so.
But who knows.
Regards,
Tom
On 9/3/2011 3:42 PM, Chip Orange wrote:
I too am really sorry to hear about this Tom.
I told my wife, as we were building our house some years ago, (she didn't
like the look of some solution we came up with for dealing with possible
water), I told her "water is the enemy!" I had to keep repeating it
throughout the construction project.
We took some lightning damage some years ago, and lost many thousands of
dollars in electronics, but still I'd say water is the thing we do, and
should, always be concerned about. (BTW, if you haven't had a topo survey
done, I'd recommend it as being very helpful when having professionals
design water handling solutions for you).
Thanks for the info on Sound Forge; it sounds as big and messy as I thought
it might be (no, worse!).
Would you know what's the status of using Sound Forge with a competitor's
product? I know Jeff Bishop mentioned one of the reasons he did the WinAmp
app initially was to show Window-Eyes could do a better job of handling
accessibility/useability issues with it's new scripting model. Maybe
someone else would feel motivated by similar feelings (as well as possible
profits) to take this one on, if there's hope We could end up being a better
platform to work with Sound Forge.
thanks.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Kingston [mailto:tom.kings...@charter.net]
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 1:34 PM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: Re: Sound Forge, was: scripts for yahoo messenger
Thanks, Tim. Yeah, a bummer indeed. And after removing about 6 feet of
clay-filled soil on 3 sides, filling it back in with rocky gravel, and
putting in about 5 miles of drainage pipes heading every which way but loose
the damn water is still trickling in a little bit. It's amazing how
unstoppable water is. I remember the day the job was finally finished. I was
outside chatting with the guys who did the work, with a bulldozer, backhoe,
and 18-wheeler dump truck surrounding the place, and they said there's
absolutely no way in hell another drop of water could possibly get in. Well,
about 2 weeks later, there it was. And so it goes.
Regards,
Tom
On 9/2/2011 7:37 AM, Tim Burgess wrote:
Hey Tom,
Really sorry to hear about your studio - that's a real bummer. Hope
you're doing well otherwise.
Best wishes.
Tim Burgess
Raised Bar Ltd
Phone: +44 (0)1827 719822
Don't forget to vote for improved access to music and music technology
at
http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Kingston [mailto:tom.kings...@charter.net]
Sent: 01 September 2011 19:14
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: Re: Sound Forge, was: scripts for yahoo messenger
Just to clarify, Sound Forge is a professional audio mastering suite.
It's an audio editor like a word processor. You can cut, copy, paste,
delete, move, fade in and out, layer, and so on. But the real
processing that sets it far apart from something like Gold Wave is
that it comes right out of the box with 50 something processing
plug-ins; equalizers, compressors, gates, reverbs, and so on and so
on. And that's just what comes with it. There are endless other plug-ins
you can add.
I started scripting it ages ago. The MSAA implementation turned out to
be a huge mess that wasted a couple months of my time after I
discovered exception after exception after exception wherein it would
return bogus information. So anyone interested in scripting it, be
forewarned.
I keep thinking I'll get back to it, but my studio was destroyed in a
flood and remains as gutted and empty as it made my bank account. So I
haven't much incentive seeing as I seldom use it any more and have
other work obligations consuming my time. And I got to know it inside
and out prior to scripting anyway.
Regards,
Tom
On 9/1/2011 1:47 PM, Curtis Delzer wrote:
sound forge is an audio editor like Gold Wave, and others, but a lot
more sophisticated.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange"<lists3...@comcast.net>
To:<gw-scripting@gwmicro.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 6:11 AM
Subject: RE: scripts for yahoo messenger
so far, my look shows me an SDK for developing add-ons, which might
be hugely helpful for anyone who wanted to develop sound forge apps for
WE.
Is this really needed though with winamp being available? I'm not
sure if they do the same thing or not, but thought I'd ask.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Delzer [mailto:cur...@gondtc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:28 AM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: Re: scripts for yahoo messenger
Hi, sound forge pro, or studio they are quite similar though pro has
a lot more when you consider the sound processing it can do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange"<lists3...@comcast.net>
To:<gw-scripting@gwmicro.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:30 PM
Subject: RE: scripts for yahoo messenger
I thought I'd at least have a look ... but I don't know anything about
it.
Were you meaning, Sound Forge, Sound Forge Audio Studio, or Sound
Forge/pro?
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Long [mailto:dennisl1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 4:56 PM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: scripts for yahoo messenger
are there any plans for scripts for yahoo messenger?
