Re: Developing a new social network for the blind and visually impaired

2019-06-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Developing a new social network for the blind and visually impaired sounds like you are really interested in making a dating site instead of a general social network. I agree that the latter is unnecessary, since you can just create a page on FB for your blind/VI community. A dating

Re: Need some help with Visual Studio Code

2019-06-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Need some help with Visual Studio Code So in your title you mention VS Code, but in your post you talk about VS, so I am not sure which you mean. VS is the heavyweight IDE and VS code is a lightweight code editor. I will just assume you use VS code as thats what I use, so that I can

Re: Developing a new social network for the blind and visually impaired

2019-06-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Developing a new social network for the blind and visually impaired Okay, fair enough. But if you gave up on python  because it was too hard then I think you might find developing the backend with C++ a lot harder.Another option I've been looking into recently that is an excellent

Re: Another question about pythonic syntax, yea!

2019-06-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Another question about pythonic syntax, yea! To all the people saying list comprehensions are bad because they are hard to understand, I beg to differ.The only reason you might think that is because you are used to the long form version and once you get used to  list comprehensions

Re: Developing a new social network for the blind and visually impaired

2019-06-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Developing a new social network for the blind and visually impaired I highly recommend  uaing a framework like Django for this. Django is particularly well suited for social networks with its simple Object Model  makes interacting with any DB system uniform and easy. twitter and

Re: Becoming a CS Major: Some Questions

2019-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Becoming a CS Major: Some Questions I definitely agree that planning ahead is key to keeping pace and not falling behind. If you are starting this fall, definitely contact your head of year to put you in touch with your professors so you can email back and forth about possible

Re: Becoming a CS Major: Some Questions

2019-05-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Becoming a CS Major: Some Questions if they want you to use IntelliJ, I recommend that you use Eclipse. it is a only fully accessible IDE for Java and as a beginner using an IDE is easier than the command line, especially for Java.The thing you need to learn as quickly as possible is

Re: Is Anaconda and visual studio code accessible?

2019-05-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Is Anaconda and visual studio code accessible? anaconda is a package and virtual environment manager for python that you use using command prompt, so no issue.VS code is an excellent lightweight general purpose code editor. I use it  for all my coding in every language. it is fully

Re: ware can I learn java skript?

2019-04-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: ware can I learn java skript? yeah, as @2 said, this project is wy too ambitious. that sort of project is hard for a seasoned software engineer.If you want to learn programming you will have to start setting up smaller goals, else you will just get frustrated and burn out.I also

Re: An opurtunity for work, for only some small code!

2019-04-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: An opurtunity for work, for only some small code! @25 not sure, but you may have misunderstood my thing about maths. I was asking the distance of the vector from origin e.g. [0,0] in the case of a 2D vector space. So, you have all you need to answer that question. Also I am not sure

Re: An opurtunity for work, for only some small code!

2019-04-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: An opurtunity for work, for only some small code! "• Know advanced coding techniques such as use of arrays, dictionaries, classes/objects, etc."These are not advanced topics. Classes and arrays  are basic. dictionaries are intermediate at best, but only if you are implemeting a

Re: An opurtunity for work, for only some small code!

2019-04-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: An opurtunity for work, for only some small code! "• Know advanced coding techniques such as use of arrays, dictionaries, classes/objects, etc."These are not advanced topics. Classes and arrays  are basic. dictionaries are intermediate at best, but only if you are implemeting a

Re: timers in javascript?

2019-04-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: timers in _javascript_? read this:https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_gettime.aspalso just google time and _javascript_ and learn about unix time.here is essentially what you want to do. not sure if everything is super optimal here. probably better way of doing it. read up on date

Re: 2 questions about python

2019-04-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 2 questions about python If you google pygame, you will find its homepage. From there you should  easily find the getting started section. There under the installation heading you will get instructions for installation as well as info on how to check if pygame is successfully

Re: dev exe toolkit version 0.1 will soon be ready

2019-04-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: dev exe toolkit version 0.1 will soon be ready Hi,I just want to better understand the use case for this tool kit.So, these are command line tools? If so, I dont really understand their purpose. Could you please describe a use case for when they would be useful?For copying to clipboard

Re: a solution to many questions asked here

2019-04-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: a solution to many questions asked here I like the idea of having a developer FAQ, since I have seen the same questions posted over and over on this forum, since I started lurking here two years ago.@6 I dont understand your problems with the FAQ. Especially what is wrong with googling

Re: Text Editor Frustrations/Asking for Help

2019-03-31 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Text Editor Frustrations/Asking for Help I highly recommend VS code. it is lightweight and supports virtually every programming and non-programming language out there. Very good autocompletion. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/423841/#p423841 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing

how do I check CPU/Memory process usage on windows with NVDA?

2019-03-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
how do I check CPU/Memory process usage on windows with NVDA? I am trying to check the usage of CPU and memory by processes on windows 10. I am using NVDA.I remember, when I had eyesight, I would just open task manager, then click on CPU header to sort processes by CPU usage and see which

Re: Calculating relistic falling dammage?

2019-03-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Calculating relistic falling dammage? your algorithm should have a minimum threshhold  for falling height , since if the player falls down 10 cm then they shouldnt take 1 hp damage. so let's say that starts at 2 meters. from physics we have the potential energy of a object suspended in

Re: My idea to encourage people to use Python and make more games with it

2019-02-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: My idea to encourage people to use Python and make more games with it damn, I have been working with python  for the better part of a decade and didn't know about the help function. man, that is really useful. before whenever I waanted to look up the signature of a python function or

Re: Some question from a beginner

2019-02-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Some question from a beginner I would also say that the free python books are actually really great. just because they are free doesnt mean they are lower quality. in fact my uni used the free think like a computer scientist book on python programming as the main textbook for teaching

Re: Code editor

2019-02-01 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Code editor VS code is a very good editor that has pretty good accessibility. It is open source developed by microsoft. It has very good and intelligent code autocompletion. It is a node.js program, so It is written using typescript, which is  an object oriented   extension of

Re: Best coding language and best resource for coding audio games?

2019-02-01 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Best coding language and best resource for coding audio games? Hi, as a third year Software Engineering uni student I whole-heartedly agree with @2.Python is in my opinion the best starting point for someone that has never done programming and all those resources he mentioned are free

Re: how to set up raspberry pi out of the box blind

2019-01-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: how to set up raspberry pi out of the box blind Thank you all for the advice.The way I had things set up is I had a sd card with noobs burned onto it, so I just popped it into my windows 10 machine, found the boot partition no problem and created the empty ssh file using cmd.Then

Re: Accessible C++ IDE?

2019-01-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible C++ IDE? Hi, I am in my third year of Uni, doing software engineering. We've done quite a bit of C programming, but now I am slowly moving to C++, so my workflow isn't the most refined, but I get things done.Personally I prefer using a lightweight editor to write my code 

how to set up raspberry pi out of the box blind

2019-01-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
how to set up raspberry pi out of the box blind Hello, has anyone here set up a raspberry pi out of the box, blind and with no sighted assisstance?I am taking a university course on operating systems and I am given a raspberry pi, which I will need to set up and use. I think the easiest

Re: accessible java IDE

2018-04-01 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: accessible java IDE I use combination of NVDA and Eclipse and I am very happy. About finding errors, there is a simple way to review what errors there are in your open projects. use ctrl+f7 to switch over to the problems view. there you will find a tree view displaying any errors and

Re: problem with making accessible GUI in Java

2018-01-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: problem with making accessible GUI in Java actually I am using NVDA, but I am having this problem... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345747#p345747 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: problem with making accessible GUI in Java

2018-01-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: problem with making accessible GUI in Java unfortunatly it seems that hasn't done the trick. here is exactly what I did:i checked which version of java i had installed. found i had both 64 bit and 32 bit.i ran cmd.exe as administratorran the jabswitch - enable command for both versions

Re: problem with making accessible GUI in Java

2018-01-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: problem with making accessible GUI in Java thanks for the advice.i used the command line to enable java bridge. i restarted everything, even my computer, but my test program that i provided the source code for in my post still doesn't create an accessible window.the focus is still

problem with making accessible GUI in Java

2018-01-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
problem with making accessible GUI in Java Hello everyone,So I am trying to make a program with Java and I am at the stage of designing the GUI, so I decided to test using the swing library. I made a simple testing project for checking how to use swing to make accessible GUI. Right now I

Re: Ride, new code editor for blinds

2017-12-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Ride, new code editor for blinds I have to say that this is a great idea. This feature , which essentially allows you to navigate through your code by indentation is something I have been thinking of for some time now. This is a feature that I feel is essential for any blind programmer

Re: How do I implement Text-To-Speech in my game?

2017-12-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
Re: How do I implement Text-To-Speech in my game? Thanks for  the replies.So I read the documentation for Tolk and it seems like just what I was looking for .However still being a big noob, I don't actually know how to  use this third party package in my project.I am using Eclipse and

How do I implement Text-To-Speech in my game?

2017-12-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
How do I implement Text-To-Speech in my game? Hello, I am a beginner programmer. I have been learning how to program with Java for quite some time and I understand all the basics of creating different classes and having them work together for a simple program.I recently made a little text

How do I implement Text-To-Speech in a Java program?

2017-12-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Dragonlee via Audiogames-reflector
How do I implement Text-To-Speech in a Java program? Hello, I am a beginner programmer. I have been learning how to program with Java for quite some time and I understand all the basics of creating different classes and having them work together for a simple program.I recently made a

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