I have released revision 226 of the JAWS Skype scripts. Release notes at https://www.dlee.org/skype/#hist and
download link available in that document as usual.

Besides making date announcement work in Skype 8.88, this revision revamps the method of handling dates during
navigation among messages:

You can read the current message's date with the key sequence [ D.

When you arrow up or down across a date boundary, a short sound will play and the date will be announced after
the message you reached. This redesign speeds navigation, avoids a stutter issue, prevents long dates from
slowing announcement of messages, avoids "Leaving ..." announcements and confusion over which date is current,
and still makes recognition of boundary crossings very efficient.


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Doug Lee dgl@... http://www.dlee.org
"I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."
- Josh Billings, 1818-1885 (in "Solemn Thoughts")

Allright Doug, I updated to this revision, many thanks! Don't know why you decided for a radical system change, but at least it works.

Bye!

Barbuz

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For anyone else curious, my reasons for the big change in chat message date handling, in no particular order:

Ease of finding out the date of a message if many occurred on the same date (the [ D sequence is new).

Annoyance at the JAWS stutter on navigating across a date boundary in older scripts. This was caused by my
having to navigate, abort the default announcement, announce the date, and then re-do the normal message
announcement.

Annoyance at having to wait through full dates before I could hear a message's content, especially in
conversations where most days consisted of only one or two messages.

A few users over time commenting that they were confused by my "Leaving ..." announcements.

Allright Doug, thanks for your explanation.

Bye!

Barbuz

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