Re: Clearing the Screen(Or not)

2018-02-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Clearing the Screen(Or not) Don't forget Freedom Scientific's JAWS screen reader. While NVDA is popular, JAWS is still the most used screen reader available.To be truly accessible, it's not enough to support just one screen reader but to support all of the most popular ones. To that

Re: Clearing the Screen(Or not)

2018-02-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Clearing the Screen(Or not) Don't forget Freedom Scientific's JAWS screen reader. While NVDA is popular, JAWS is still the most used screen reader available.To be truly accessible, it's not enough to support just one screen reader but to support all of the most popular ones. To that

Re: Thaumistry and JAWS Compatibility

2018-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thaumistry and JAWS Compatibility No it doesn't, but when every message he posts regarding JAWS is nothing but negative comments about the screen reader without offering a single shred of useful or constructive discussion, that is very close minded to me.So he doesn't like JAWS, I get

Re: Thaumistry and JAWS Compatibility

2018-02-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Thaumistry and JAWS Compatibility I'd just ignore ironcross32, he just likes to troll JAWS whenever he can and doesn't care to contribute anything useful or constructive unless you are talking about his chosen screen reader. Very close minded in my opinion.I think it would be best to

Re: Looking for people to test text-mode version of the game "Thaumistry"

2018-01-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Looking for people to test text-mode version of the game "Thaumistry" You're probably right. Microsoft does have that nasty little habit of grabbing extra characters when you're not looking. Sometimes it's helpful, most times it's not. URL:

Re: Looking for people to test text-mode version of the game "Thaumistry"

2018-01-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Looking for people to test text-mode version of the game "Thaumistry" When I first tried the address using copy and paste, GMail said it was invalid, but when I tried again by typing the address, it worked.@ironcross32Was your trolling of JAWS really necessary? Did it add anything

Re: Looking for people to test text-mode version of the game "Thaumistry"

2018-01-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Looking for people to test text-mode version of the game "Thaumistry" I'm interested! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=348237#p348237 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Re: Accessible hex editor?

2017-12-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible hex editor? Yeah, I used control so I was navigating by nibble. At the time I was looking to do a quick and dirty edit so I didn't spend a lot of time tinkering with the settings or playing with a junk file to figure everything out about it. URL:

Re: Accessible hex editor?

2017-12-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible hex editor? It worked well for me. The one thing I had to get used to, though as I think about it, it makes sense, is that each byte seems to appear twice, but it's simply because the screen reader reads the whole byte rather than the individual numbers.So for 0x15 the first

Re: Accessible hex editor?

2017-12-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible hex editor? It worked well for me. The one thing I had to get used to, though as I think about it, it makes sense, is that each byte seems to appear twice, but it's simply because the screen reader reads the whole byte rather than the individual numbers.So for 0x15 the first

Re: Ride, new code editor for blinds

2017-12-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Ride, new code editor for blinds Or even Notepad++ for that matter? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=340821#p340821 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Accessible hex editor?

2017-11-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Accessible hex editor? I need to edit a small file of binary data. Is there such thing as an accessible hex editor? It doesn't need to be big or fancy or have a lot of features, just something basic will do.Thanks! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=339425#p339425

Re: I'm Not Sure What to use to code

2017-11-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: I'm Not Sure What to use to code Pure Basic all the way. Not only is it easy to work with, it has a lot of built in commands for sound and graphics, both 2D and 3D, and while it may not compare to C/C++ for coding power, the final executables it produces are small, fast, and compare

Re: Programming the matrix

2017-10-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Programming the matrix In the old Infocom game, "A Mind Forever Voyaging", your character is itself a computer simulation living in a computer simulated world, but until he was told the truth of his existence, he was completely unaware.I believe that if we are computer simulations in a

Re: Accessible Forum Software Packages

2017-08-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible Forum Software Packages I haven't been to a My BB forum that I know of, but so far Pun BB dispaite some of it's short comings is still the most screen reader friendly forum software I've encountered.Since most of them support skins or themes, what would be nice to see are

Re: Accessible Forum Software Packages

2017-08-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible Forum Software Packages My only exposure to Word Press that I know of is that a friend uses it for his blog.Although it does allow the posting of comments about a particular blog with no registration required, I have no idea how it would fork as a forum. URL:

Re: Accessible Forum Software Packages

2017-08-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Accessible Forum Software Packages I've visited forums running a variety of forum software from commercial products like vBulletin and Invision Board, to phpBB to home grown, and so far, pun BB is the most screen reader friendly one I've visited.The forums at AppleVis aren't bad

Re: Looking for an accessible Python editor

2017-07-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Looking for an accessible Python editor I'm also a JAWS user and my go to editor for programming is Notepad++. It's free and it has a lot of features specifically for dealing with source code, though some features like key word highlighting have limited value to a blind

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 My last job before I lost my vision was as a senior software engineer for the popular Armadillo software protection and licensing system, you'd call it DRM. We were constantly dealing with hackers trying any kind of

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 My last job before I lost my vision was as a senior software engineer for the popular Armadillo software protection and licensing system, you'd call it DRM. We were constantly dealing with hackers trying any kind of

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 My last job before I lost my vision was as a senior software engineer for the popular Armadillo software protection and licensing system, you'd call it DRM. We were constantly dealing with hackers trying any kind of

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 Any program you install on a computer can affect the whole computer, especially if it's poorly written or has exploitable vulnerabilities. Are you really willing to bet your and your customers' computers that I'm not

Re: Programming language with easy syntax?

2017-07-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Programming language with easy syntax? Very true, programming is something you pretty much have to learn by doing. A book may tell you everything you might want to know about a language and the theory or programming, but when you are done reading you'll find you still just as clueless

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 Proof of what Aprone is saying can be easily found at Microsoft's web site where you can get updates to even the latest versions of the C and C++ runtimes redistributable libraries, which are mostly security fixes.Not only

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 Proof of what Aprone is saying can be easily found at Microsoft's web site where you can get updates to even the latest versions of the C and C++ runtimes redistributable libraries, which are mostly security fixes. URL:

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 I'm a JAWS user and even I wouldn't buy it just for one program, especially when that program is VB6 and there are far better choices available.If I were going to use VB6, I'd probably look to a much older version of JAWS.

Re: Programming language with easy syntax?

2017-07-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Programming language with easy syntax? God it's been so long, but I do remember that now, and that I was always annoying people by leaving it turned on when most people turned it off.Wasn't it not only a compile time switch that you could put in your code, but also an option you could

Re: Programming language with easy syntax?

2017-07-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Programming language with easy syntax? That was one of the things I hated about Visual Basic and PHP, no types.Sure, Visual Basic had types, but all it did with them was determine how to store the variable in memory. If a function called for a parameter of type A, but you provided a

Re: Audio Maze first demo

2017-07-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Audio Maze first demo Steve, you don't have to do anything. If the moderators think this thread belongs somewhere else, they'll move it and let you know.Since one moderator has already posted a response and said nothing about where you posted this thread, I think you don't have

Re: Audio Maze first demo

2017-07-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Audio Maze first demo Hey! Way cool! Will check it out, downloading... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=320844#p320844 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 There probably is, but I don't know of them personally, ages ago when I learned Visual Basic 6, all the books I used were from Microsoft Press. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=320803#p320803

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 Visual Basic's toolbox is very visual. I've heard that there are blind developers using it, but don't know if their screen reader has a mode or scripts to deal with Visual Basic, or if they've simply learned how to bypass

Re: Programming language with easy syntax?

2017-07-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Programming language with easy syntax? For me it's Pure Basic. Not only is its syntax easy to read as you would expect with the Basic language. The compiled programs compare very favorably against the best C/C++ compilers for size and speed. It has a rather extensive library of

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 Unfortunately, that will never happen, Microsoft pretty much sold out the entire Visual Studio 6 community by converting all of it's languages to use their .NET framework. I think that only C/C++ that compiled to native

Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6

2017-07-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It, Or Why I've Chosen to Lern VB6 Whatever floats your boat, but if you are looking for an easy to use language I think you're going to find that Visual Basic isn't really any easier than the other languages you mentioned trying.Plus as old and unsupported

Re: Is it worth it to develop games on BGT?

2017-06-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Is it worth it to develop games on BGT? In a nutshell, no.First and foremost is that BGT is a dead product. Blastbay Studios no longer supports or does any development work on it to correct bugs or other problems.And secondly, unless you write your game to be completely self voicing or

Re: is there an app that can help me build websites?

2017-06-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: is there an app that can help me build websites? Before I lost my vision, I tried many WYSIWYG web site editors and every one of them put extra unneeded code into the page's HTML making it harder to maintain or to do something unique out side the program. In the end I simply used Ultra

Re: is there an app that can help me build websites?

2017-06-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: is there an app that can help me build websites? As I said, I've never tried it. I only knew that it was supposed to be a blind user friendly web page creator.Personally I'd more than likely just use something like Notepad++ and hand code it. URL:

Re: is there an app that can help me build websites?

2017-06-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumDevelopers room : Orko via Audiogames-reflector
Re: is there an app that can help me build websites? I haven't tried it yet myself but have downloaded it for when I'll need something like it. This was copied from the jaws-users web site, but should work with any screen reader.jaws-users wrote:arach_full.exe Download