Chip,
An interesting idea. And as a start-out, it might be as easy as you
described. Hopefully, this message won't discourage anyone from getting such
a thing going. Just wanted to point out, that although it might be a
starting point, it might not end there.
I don't know all languages. Yet, in the three Scandinavian languages -
Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish - we speak the dates backward from what you
are doing. That is, you would say February the third; whilst a Scandinave
would say Third February. Accordingly, he would also write it things like
03. February. And, on top of it all, he would spell his monthname
differently. So, to save the app developer a bit of headache at a later
state, when you decide to internationalize your app, let the
monthname-strings you are looking for, be in your XML file. That way, you
can easily add on more language specific names later on. And, let the script
look for a number immediately Before and After the monthname.
First you want to make it a real script - maybe not at day one, but sometime
down the road - maybe you should let the user decide which of the two
English ways he want it spoken as well. You know - February 3rd - or, third
of February.
Just some thoughts, that might be helpful to include already at the set-out
of the app idea. Easier to build right from the beginning - than to have to
modify at a later state. Smile.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <lists3...@comcast.net>
To: <gw-a...@gwmicro.com>
Cc: <gw-scripting@gwmicro.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 4:15 AM
Subject: RE: wineyes reading date
Dennis,
I'm really stretched for time; but, I was hoping to interest someone who's
been learning how to write macros, and who's been looking around for a
project to start out with. This seems like a good one for a starting
scripter, as it won't have variations caused by different releases of
Windows, it won't be too big, etc. Anyone willing to try this one? You'd
just need to try intercepting spoken strings and find a month name
followed
by a number, and alter the number slightly so 2 is said as second, 3 as
third, and so on.
Chip
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Long [mailto:dennisl1...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 6:42 PM
To: gw-a...@gwmicro.com
Subject: Re: wineyes reading date
could you create one?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Orange" <lists3...@comcast.net>
To: <gw-a...@gwmicro.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 6:28 PM
Subject: RE: wineyes reading date
> interesting idea for an app.
>
> Chip
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dennis Long [mailto:dennisl1...@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:45 PM
>> To: gw-a...@gwmicro.com
>> Subject: wineyes reading date
>>
>> is there way to get wineyes to read february 3rd instead of
>> february 03?
>> thanks.
>>
>
