Re: [NTLK] Dashboard Macintalk Script

From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 18:59:34 EST


Hey, I know I'm not a "doofus" but I can't get the
script to work either...neither of them.
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://65.84.243.167 (my NPDS server)

--- peter fraser <newtmanapple_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> well, i tried this variant as well, with the same
> result - dashboard says it can't compile it.
>
> i guess i need a dashboard tutorial. would anyone
> care to give me a kindergarten-level step by step
> guide on how to make this work?
>
> sorry to be such a doofus.
>
> --- Stephanie Maks <newton_at_maksystems.com> wrote:
> >
> > I made some changes to the script before I used
> > it... it was the PlaySound
> > command that I couldn't remember. Anyhow here's
> the
> > script I successfully
> > used:
> >
> > // use fred or ralf or gnws or zarv etc.
> > // to select which voice to speak in
> > local t := GetHilitedTextItem();
> > local vox := "[[svox kath]]"; // changes voice to
> > Kathy
> > if not(t=nil) then begin
> > foreach item in t do
> > PlaySound(vox&item);
> > end;
> >
> > -Stephanie
> >
> > > ok, so i've got Dashboard, but have never messed
> > with
> > > scripting. i typed in the text exactly as
> shown,
> > with
> > > the capitalizations fixed and with a semicolon
> > after
> > > each line - and get an error. what am i doing
> > wrong?

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