Re: [NTLK] Dashboard Macintalk Script

From: peter fraser (newtmanapple_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 19:21:40 EST


yes, sir - it is installed.

--- Gary Moody <gmoody_at_gmx.net> wrote:
> Not to ask a too elementary question...but...you
> *do* have the MacinTalk
> packages installed, right? Verify by going to the
> InOut Box, tap the "i"
> button...do you have "Speak Text Prefs" on the menu?
>
> No flames, please...just trying to help... :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf
> Of Ed Kummel
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:00 PM
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] Dashboard Macintalk Script
>
>
>
> 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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