In the spirit of constructive feedback seeking, I wonder which keystrokes? I do know that my Skype 7 scripts made Alt+numbers read chats but that, years after I started doing that, Skype made Alt+1 through Alt+3 jump to
different screens in Skype. I can't think of any others but wonder if I'm forgetting any.

As far as the Alt+numbers go, I had to make a difficult decision: Change my keystrokes after years because Skype suddenly collided with them and risk ticking off long-term users, or continue using the keys as always and provide
alternate ways to use the new Skype commands, at the risk of ticking off newcomers. I chose the former and pleaded with Skype, before it belonged to Microsoft, to switch to Ctrl+numbers for the screen-switching commands. I
lost.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 05:43:29AM +1030, Shaun Oliver wrote:
my only complaint with the former is I don't get enough of it. however,
putting the subject back on topic, whenever I've used Doug's scripts in
the past, I have never had a complaint against them, save the fact that
towards the end of my using them, keystrokes that were already
incorperated in to Skype had been remapped and rerouted through JAWS to
do something other than what Skype had intended for them to do.

On 10/10/2018 03:58, Mike DeZinno wrote:

Hey Doug,
I once met a man who complained about free sex;
So why am I not surprised you get complaints about free Skype scrips!
LOL
Take care and keep the faith,
Mike, from SC
At 08:13 AM 10/9/2018, you wrote:

The part that gets me almost giggling resignedly here is that we're
arguing over a program that costs us nothing. People sometimes get
mad at me for saying things like, "The next version of the Skype
scripts will no longer
support any JAWS versions older than 15.0." I do that when it lets
me do better things in scripting than the older JAWS versions
allowed, or when older JAWS versions simply can't handle the newest
version of the application.
But people generally have the sense to realize that I'm (1) not
doing it to hurt people, (2) am actually doing it for a reason, and
(3) cannot be called mean because I'm giving away for free what I'm
doing anyway.
The only time I can remember complaining about a change to a free
program was when Roger suddenly vanished with very little warning.
My complaint at that time was that they gave us little warning and
also gave us nowhere to go.
Microsoft has given us way plenty of warning and has also given us
not one, but two places to go (Skype 8 or Skype UWP). And despite a
small number of claims in this thread, we have absolutely solid and
prolific proof that at
least Skype 8 works well enough with both JAWS and NVDA to be
usable. It has its quirks, but so did Skype 7. So Microsoft gave us
the easiest feedback system for reporting them that I have ever
seen, bar none: Open, type into a
box, press Enter, done!
Finally, if anyone wanted to complain loudly, I think it should have
been me. My Command Line Interface for Skype, Clisk
([1]http://www.dlee.org/skype/clisk), is completely unsupported
after the end of this month. That's a loss of
years of my time, at least arguably.
So why don't I yell about that one? Again, Microsoft gave plenty of
warning, good explanations for why they are doing what they're
doing, and even delayed Skype 7's demise partly because of one
feature Clisk used, that being
the ability to redirect and record sound from Skype. I will
seriously miss Clisk, but that is no reason to cry foul.
In conclusion, I'd say this Skype update should best be treated like
a hurricane; and that hurricane actually has a name: Cloud. Cloud
infrastructure is why this update is happening. Skype, as I said
before, is changing how it
communicates. It is starting to use a cloud structure. Skype 7 was
not ready for that and never will be. So Microsoft gave an
evacuation order, with several months' warning - which is unusual
for a weather bulletin lol. But
really, in this storm, if we cling to our islands, we truly will end
up lost at sea.
On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 07:13:12AM -0400, Joseph Machise wrote:
well, that's the trouble with Microsoft, who are they to tell us
what to do.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaun Oliver"
[2]<blindman75@...>
To: [3]<skypeenglish@groups.io>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2018 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [skypeenglish] refusal of ypdating to a new version of
Skype
> as has been stated in the official notice from ms, they will no
longer be
> supporting Skype 7 or classic as it's now known. this means that
you will
> either be forced to update, or your classic skype will begin to
stop
> working until it no longer works entirely.
>
>
>
> On 9/10/2018 12:49, Josephine Hirsch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > What if you refused to update to a new version of Skype? I like
the
> > Skype Classic because it is easier for me to navigate on Skype
Classic
> > than Skype 8.30, and I could never get anyone to hear me on
Skype 8.30
> > any longer, and I tried everything and no go with Skype 8.30
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Josephine
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
--
Doug Lee [4]dgl@...
[5]http://www.dlee.org
Level Access [6]doug.lee@...
[7]http://www.LevelAccess.com
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men
to do
what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling
with
them while they do it."--Theodore Roosevelt


References

1. http://www.dlee.org/skype/clisk
2. mailto:blindman75@...
3. mailto:skypeenglish@groups.io
4. mailto:dgl@...
5. http://www.dlee.org/
6. mailto:doug.lee@...
7. http://www.levelaccess.com/
8. https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/message/3387
9. mailto:skypeenglish@groups.io?subject=Re:%20Re%3A%20%5Bskypeenglish%5D%20refusal%20of%20ypdating%20to%20a%20new%20version%20of%20Skype
10. mailto:blindman75@...?subject=Private:%20Re:%20Re%3A%20%5Bskypeenglish%5D%20refusal%20of%20ypdating%20to%20a%20new%20version%20of%20Skype
11. https://groups.io/mt/27107171/409874
12. https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/post
13. http://www.dlee.org/skype/
14. https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/editsub/409874
15. mailto:skypeenglish+owner@groups.io
16. https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/leave/defanged