Hello Doug,
thank you for the key application enlightenment.
Some wise person once said that all disabilities aren't equal.
I guess adding to that the myriad of devices and personalized
configurations the blind can use today makes finding unique keystrokes
when scripting that are also possible to execute a real
challenge.
Again another reason to thank you and appreciate your work on our
behalf.
Respectfully,
Mike, in SC
At 10:45 AM 10/10/2018, you wrote:
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Alt+Win+numbers can be obnoxious to
type frequently, especially when a keyboard has only one Alt or Windows
key. Alt+numbers or Ctrl+numbers are much less challenging even in such a
case because the thumb can hold down one key
but not reliably two. This is my finding anyway.
To the original concern in this subthread though: I try not to override
application keystrokes that exist before I start coding stuff. Skype just
bit me by suddenly attaching functionality to keys I had been using for a
long
time already, and even across multiple chat programs.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:26:01AM -0400, Mike DeZinno wrote:
Hey Doug,
Regarding your old keystrokes verses apps stepping on you by
hijacking
them with their newer upgrades:
Could a simple fix just be for you to add the windows key to
the key
combos?
I only offer that because in recent years I see a number of
other
adaptive software doing that;
So (alt plus a number) would become (alt win number)
I don't pretend to know a lot about scripting so I don't
know if that
is or isn't an easy thing to do, just kinda throwing it out
there for
consideration.
Thanks for all you have already done and for what you will
be doing in
the future,
Mike, in SC
At 08:20 PM 10/9/2018, you wrote:
lol yes, I can see that. that was the very thing
I was talking
about. but, to be fair, you not only had to
accomodate long time
users, but new users that were just coming to
the platform also, so
I really can't fault you on that.
On 10/10/2018 07:55, Doug Lee wrote:
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][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][2]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.
[3]http://www.dlee.org/skype/clisk
2.
[4]mailto:blindman75@...
3.
[5]mailto:skypeenglish@groups.io
4.
[6]mailto:dgl@...
5.
[7]http://www.dlee.org/
6.
[8]mailto:doug.lee@...
7.
[9]http://www.levelaccess.com/
8.
[10]https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/message/3387
9.
[11]mailto:skypeenglish@groups.io?subject=Re:%20Re%3A%20%5Bskypeengl
ish%5D%20refusal%20of%20ypdating%20to%20a%20new%20version%20of%20Sky
pe
10.
[12]mailto:blindman75@...?subject=Private:%20Re:%20Re%3A%20%5B
skypeenglish%5D%20refusal%20of%20ypdating%20to%20a%20new%20version%2
0of%20Skype
11.
[13]https://groups.io/mt/27107171/409874
12.
[14]https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/post
13.
[15]http://www.dlee.org/skype/
14.
[16]https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/editsub/409874
15.
[17]mailto:skypeenglish+owner@groups.io
16.
[18]https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/leave/defanged
References
1.
http://www.dlee.org/skype/clisk
2.
http://www.dlee.org/
3.
http://www.dlee.org/skype/clisk
4.
mailto:blindman75@...
5.
mailto:skypeenglish@groups.io
6.
mailto:dgl@...
7.
http://www.dlee.org/
8.
mailto:doug.lee@...
9.
http://www.levelaccess.com/
10.
https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/message/3387
11.
mailto:skypeenglish@groups.io%3Fsubject=Re:%20Re:%20%5Bskypeenglish%5D%20refusal%20of%20ypdating%20to%20a%20new%20version%20of%20Skype
12.
mailto:blindman75@...%3Fsubject=Private:%20Re:%20Re:%20%5Bskypeenglish%5D%20refusal%20of%20ypdating%20to%20a%20new%20version%20of%20Skype
13.
https://groups.io/mt/27107171/409874
14.
https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/post
15.
http://www.dlee.org/skype/
16.
https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/editsub/409874
17.
mailto:skypeenglish+owner@groups.io
18.
https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/leave/defanged
19.
https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/message/3408
20.
mailto:skypeenglish@groups.io?subject=Re:%20Re%3A%20%5Bskypeenglish%5D%20refusal%20of%20ypdating%20to%20a%20new%20version%20of%20Skype
21.
mailto:mike@...?subject=Private:%20Re:%20Re%3A%20%5Bskypeenglish%5D%20refusal%20of%20ypdating%20to%20a%20new%20version%20of%20Skype
22.
https://groups.io/mt/27107171/409874
23.
https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/post
24.
http://www.dlee.org/skype/
25.
https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/editsub/409874
26.
mailto:skypeenglish+owner@groups.io
27.
https://groups.io/g/skypeenglish/leave/defanged
--
Doug
Lee
dgl@...
http://www.dlee.org
Level
Access
doug.lee@...
http://www.LevelAccess.com
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of
them
to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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