Jeff
,
Thanks for your kind advice, it is really appreciated, but you wont
believe this
.
About a year and a half ago, I was having this same problem, and at the
time, I discovered that it seemed to go haywire whenever I switched from
any app back to Winamp. When I say app, I'm talking about the more
modern use of the word, for programs, rather than WE scripts. It just so
happened that the author of the Winamp script/app placed a line
directing the turning off of the keyboard voice. I don't have any idea
why this should be the case, but nevertheless he did.
About a year and a half ago, as I mentioned above, Rod Hutton offered to
try figuring this out by checking out the script, and that is where he
discovered the offending line. He corrected it for our purposes, and
after installing the script, everything began to work like a charm.
As I was telling Rod, I can't believe I had forgotten that issue, and
yet, I think I came ever so close to remembering this at about 3:00 this
morning, but didn't totally put it together. Either too early, or
getting too old or something I guess <grin>.
Anyway, those solutions should definitely work under normal conditions,
but when the issue comes from a totally unsuspected source the way it
did, only luck and a bit of genius can get to the bottom of something
like this I'm afraid.
But sincerely, thanks for your efforts, they were definitely appreciated.
Take care,
Larry
On 6/27/2017 8:48 AM, Jeff Weiss wrote:
You may have tried this, but here is what works for me:
1. make sure all other programs and windows are closed and then
restart window-eyes.
2 press control-backslash to enter the we control panel.
3 arrow down to keyboard settings.
4 right arrow once to voice.
5 tab to make sure global is showing.
6 tab again to the eight choices--the one you want is the second
choice--voice global on with characters.
7 tab to save settings and press enter.
This should work-- but like I mentioned before, you might need to do
this with all three main setfiles--that is:
default.set
wineyes.set
and
explorer.set.
It should not be necessary to do this more than once, but I found it
helped to repeat this process with each of these three main set files
showing in the control panel title bar.
hth,
Jeff
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Higgins
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 8:29 PM
To: Jeff Weiss ; Window-Eyes Discussion List
Subject: Re: Getting keyboard settings to stick once and for all
Jeff, Sorry about the rather delayed response.
As for the layout, I am using the default. The only setting I am
interested in making on a global level is the speak characters setting,
and this setting will not stick, no matter how I go about saving it.
I know that I succeeded, all be it with a little help back when I
started using this PC, but after the hard drive crash, it has been, so
far at least, absolutely impossible to save this setting.
I have saved all three ways, namely, ctrl+s, by tabbing to the option in
the settings dialog box, and using the save option in the file menu, all
to no avail.
Now here goes my paranoia, hopefully there isn't possibly some sabotage
by the powers that be in order to make the Office version just that much
tougher to use over time. In other words, an attempt at acceleration of
the inevitable <smile>. OK, I think I'm kidding, but anything is
possible online these days.
But anyway, if you or anybody else can help with this little yet big
annoyance, it would really be very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
Larry
On 6/26/2017 10:58 AM, Jeff Weiss wrote:
I may have missed the beginning of this discussion, but I will give
you some suggestions for saving settings in Window-eyes:
First of all, Make sure that in the keyboard settings that you have
selected the layout that you want. I always use the Window-eyes
default layout.
After selecting this, tab to apply layout and press it, and then tab
to save settings and press enter.
Second, there appear to be at least three set files which are used
when there is not a specific set file for a particular program.
They are
explorer.set,
wineyes.set,
and default.set.
Now when you are making global settings changes, as long as global is
showing in the setting that you are tabbing through, when you tab to
save settings and press enter, it should save those settings
globally, but sometimes, I have had to make the change again for the
other setfiles listed above.
If you have tried all of this, and still need help, give me a
specific example of what the problem is?
What set file is loaded when saving settings?
Is Window-eyes default the layout you have chosen?
Which specific settings don't stick?
Jeff Weiss
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Higgins via Talk
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2017 9:46 AM
To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List'
Subject: Getting keyboard settings to stick once and for all
I sure hope that someone can refresh my memory on this one.
Let me just say at the outset that all of the usual suspects for saving
settings have been tried, at least to my knowledge. I even tried saving
settings to set files as I went along, but to know avail.
I believe that someone gave me a really great tip for making sure these
ssetting stuck once and for all, but it has been so long ago, and any
hope I might have for retrieving them from old email vanished with my
hard drive crash.
Needless to say, this is really driving me nuts, just one more headache
I don't need while trying to rebuild my computer environment.
If anybody could please, please help, it would be most gratefully
appreciated. Please don't suggest switching to JAWS, that ain't
happening any time too soon I'm afraid. A bit of a financial setback due
to my recent experience.
I will close for now before I become grumpy <smile. But seriously, help
is desperately needed.
Larry
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