I tried r811 == raisin last night on Vista Ultimate 64bit. I'm
seriously impressed with this work. I was going to suggest that the
.rb files for shoes be renamed to .shu files so one can associate
them with shoes under windows, but the batch file makes that pretty
much unnecessary. Well, it might still be useful, but the .rb files
mean the editors still know what they are.
What particularly impressed me was this: the vjot example note
taker interacts better than Tkinter from Python with speech, and
better than many apps do for vista; it is possible to turn on
Windows speech recognition, and read directly into the tool without
having to use the correction dialogue (unless you want to correct
soemthing, and that just works too.). I will have to play with this
some more (not sure when) to see if I can get Shoes to trigger
Narrator to read what I want by suitable events.
OK, one or two wrinkles:
The manual, sometimes (Grrr, not reproducible every time) clicking
on the left links just blanked the manual page and I could not get
it back so had to restart. In the video player, the skip 5 seconds
button made the video go white, and then nothing happened. I waited
more than 5 seconds.
Wishlist:
That the menu for the shoes window provide access to the keyboard
shortcuts like alt-/ and so forth: i.e. make them discoverable.
[As per Donald Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things".]
Hugh
