[jawsscripts] Re: SetSystemVolume
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:02:11 +1100
Ah. now that's a very good question John! I remember few years ago, people
asking Eric Damary on this, and the memory I have of his response was, that
this would not be something FS would be granting any time soon!
But, I hope this has changed....
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Martyn" <johnrobertmartyn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 8:03 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: SetSystemVolume
> This brings up another question. Does JAWS have an API we can access?
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Marang
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:08 PM
> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: SetSystemVolume
>
> I have noticed that the JAWS functions for System and the JAWS voice
> volume
> on Windows 7 do not work independently as expected. Freedom Scientific
> has
> been aware of this since the Windows 7 bvta.
> In the past, I have attempted to call the nircmd commands from a JAWS
> Script
> to properly lower / raise the system volume and also scripts which create
> hotkeys to lower / raise the volume of the current application, such as
> Internet Explorer. While this should not be that hard, I had difficulty
> programmatically getting the text string for the application which is used
> in the Volume Mixer and used as an argument in the nircnd command.
>
>
> *Don Marang*
> Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
> <http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
>
>
> On 2/22/2012 10:08 PM, Jim Snowbarger wrote:
>> Yes, I just looked at the list of examples. Pretty impressive.
>> Haven't looked at the help yet.
>> I now have a hot key established that will unmute the system volume,
>> and set the volume to max.
>> Made a .bat file with two NirCmd commands in it, made a short cut on
>> the desktop, pointed it at the .bat file, and connected a hot key. Works
> good.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:42 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: SetSystemVolume
>>
>>
>> Hay, Jim, he's got a whole list of stuff on his site that u can do
>> w/that, including putting a shortcut on the desktop to unmute the
>> volume, etc.
>>
>> Reid, in answer to your private contact, sounds like u might be
>> getting some blocking of .chm files from your computer.
>>
>> On 2/22/12, Jim Snowbarger <Snowman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Absolutely,
>>> pretty cool little utility.
>>> one of the options in here is to set the system volume to the max. I
>>> bet you could put a simple .bat file on your desktop with nircmd.exe
>>> setsysvolume 65535 in there, and attach some unused hot key so that,
>>> if you ever get speech locked out due to system volume, you could
>>> just press the hotKey and get it back.
>>>
>>> Thanks for that one.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:06 AM
>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: SetSystemVolume
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's somethin useful yall might wanna check out if you're gonna
>>> experiment w/the system volume:
>>> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
>>> HTH.
>>>
>>> On 2/22/12, Bissett, Tom <tom.bissett@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Thanks guys, I appreciate the info and I all ready killed my volume
>>>> and had to get help to bring it back. Thus the posting.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Tom Bisset
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim
>>>> Snowbarger
>>>> Sent: February 21, 2012 10:59 PM
>>>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: SetSystemVolume
>>>>
>>>> And, don't get this one wrong, or you will lose speech. So, beware.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:46 PM
>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: SetSystemVolume
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks like the system volume ranges from 0 to 65536 on a 32-bit
>>>> machine.
>>>>
>>>> On 2/21/12, mark <marktorgerson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> I have never tried this function but I am guessing it would be
>>>>> a percentage from 0 to 100.
>>>>>
>>>>> God bless,
>>>>> mark
>>>>>
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>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bissett, Tom
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 9:27 AM
>>>>> To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] SetSystemVolume
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi, There is the JAWS function called SetSystemVolume(), it takes
>>>>> one
>>>>> parameter. Can anyone tell me what the parameter should be? I
>>>>> persume
>>>>> it is int but I don't know what numbers it is looking for.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Tom Bisset
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