Hey JIm, Thanks for this. Yeah, I kind a wondered what the deal was with why the scripts weren't working. Then it dawned on me. Good observation.
Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "jim grimsby Jr." <[email protected]> To: "'a list for discussing skype and its use with screen access software.'" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Cc: <gw-info at gwmicro.com> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:05 AM Subject: [Skypeenglish] a note to window eyes 7.0 beta one users. usingskype. > Hello, > As everyone now knows the window eyes beta 1 for 7.0 was released > yesterday. > There is now scripting support for that beta. There is now a skype script > that uses the skype API to get access to the information from skype. > This has a number of advantages. The API calls will not change very much > from version to version. So no matter what happens with the user > interface > the window eyes scripts will not have to be reworked every time skype > changes something. More information can be provided that is not provided > threw the tray alerts. For example window-eyes will tell you when a user > has signed out what the on line status is etc. > The only problem is that you have to do two things to get this to work. > First you must install the skype extras manager. This is the default when > installing skype. If you don't have this installed you will get a nasty > little error message from window-eyes about a vb script run time error. If > this happens run the skype setup again. Click the options button and then > tab over to install extras manager. Check this box and go ahead with the > install like you normally would. Now if you should go in to the advanced > section of option never ever ever disable the check box that reads > automatically start extras manager. > Now when skype starts it should ask if you want to allow wecom to access > skype. Select always and press enter. > If this does not happen you will not get an error from window-eyes any > more > but it will not be able to access the skype API. > So now we will need to tell skype to do this. > To do this open the skype main window. Press alt t for toos and arrow up > to > options. > Press enter here. > Now arrow down in the tree tell you find advanced. Ok now tab over to > manage programs access to skype. Press space bar. > Now you will be in the list of programs that have requested skype access. > Now there is a problem with tracking this list gw micro is already aware > of > this problem and they assure me they are looking in to it. So now what > you need to do is press ensert pluss. This will route the mouse to the > list > box. Now you need to press ensert page up tell you here wecom. Press the > slash key to click on this option. > If a dialog comes up asking question about wecom like should it be run > hidden etc press escape. Now tab over to change and select the option in > the list that says allow this program to access skype. Click ok click ok > again and click save. > Now you will have all the support you need from the skype scripts. > Anything you want to see added to the scripts for skype send them to > suppot at gwmicro.com. > Hope this information is helpful. > p.s one thing I would love to see is message review. Meaning the ability > to > pres a key and see the ten most recent messages. > A typing sounder would also be nice indention to hearing the spoken > message. Note we will not luse this in beta four with window eyes because > the api will still provide this information. > > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
