Re: getting the time and date with one press of insert f12

  • From: Chris Skarstad <toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:57:09 -0500

Hi Rick, yep that's what i was thinking too, but like I was saying in my original message, i'm no scripter. All I know is code that people have shown me and tips i've gotten here and there. so i would need to find out what to modify, and what exactly I would need to add or change to get it to say both the time and the date all with one key press.


Thanks.

At 04:18 PM 8/27/2007, you wrote:
Hi Chris,
I would think that you could look at the keyboard manager
and find out what script is assigned to that keystroke, and then slightly modify the script to announce both pieces of information at the same time. I can do it easily enough with a simple saystring, but I'm guessing that fs probably uses the say useing voice function.

Richard Justice
<http://www.blind-computing.com>www.blind-computing.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:toonhead@xxxxxxxxxx>Chris Skarstad
To: <mailto:jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:36 PM
Subject: getting the time and date with one press of insert f12

Hi folks, I'm pretty sure this is a scripting issue, and I've never
been able to wrapp my mind around the scripting language, all accept
for code that I've gotten from other folks and put to use
myself.  But like the subject line says, I've noticed that other
screenreaders give you the time and date with one press of a hot
key.  With JAWS, you have to press insert f12 twice to do this.  So,
is there a script, or some other type of modification I can make so
that JAWS will say, 1:32 PM on August 27th, 2007?
Note the time I gave is my current time just as an example. I'm
pretty sure this can be done, but I've never understood why JAWS
doesn't do this too.

Thanks for any help.




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