RE: skype

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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of don bishop
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:24 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: skype

Actually, there are newer scripts which were just released last night.  They
are beta scripts and need to be compiled, but so far they seem to be working
well.

Below is the text of a message from Doug Lee which describes the
changes/improvements as well as how to obtain the scripts.

Don

Finally, there is activity on the JAWS scripts for Skype again!
More accurately, the behind-the-scenes activity that's been going on for
months is finally surfacing for public scrutiny.  In the background, I have
gone all the way from version 275 to version 298.  There just hasn't been an
easy way to manage releases along the way.

And there still isn't, so the scripts I am about to describe are available,
at least for now, from the following link, NOT from the normal place:

http://www.dlee.org/jfw-skr298.zip

I hope to coordinate a better solution with Chris at some point, but so far
I have not managed to do this.

Here's what's been going on.  I will first describe the fixes, then the new
features.  There is a fair amount of information here.  Finally, I will give
details on one of the more interesting new features, which is a virtual-view
profile on a triple SayLine.  I call this the VCard feature, for reasons
which will become clearer near the bottom of this message.


Fixes:

JAWSKey+Q will now say the scripts are version 298 or later.  For once,
at least for now, this message is actually up to date. :-)

By popular demand, SkypeWatch will no longer say "Skype" in front of
everything.  This should now be as it once was.

Enter, Tab, and Shift+Tab should work in JAWS virtual buffers now, such as
for JAWSKey+W and JAWSKey+H help screens.

The "Something got past the MSAA code" message should no longer speak in the
Search Results list, and that list should read properly now.

Contact names should read properly in the Received Contacts dialog.

 Using Ctrl+Tab to switch among chat windows should now work even when  the
window being switched to is minimized.  Before, this would cause  "No window
is active" messages from time to time.

AutoActions should now work under Skype 2.5 and 2.6 just as under 2.0, for
those that use this feature.

Ctrl+Shift+I, for technical call information, should work more often 
Ctrl+Shift+under
Skype 2.5 and 2.6.  You may have to do a screen refresh (JAWSKey+Escape)
and/or move the JAWS cursor over a contact's name to get this to work in
conferences sometimes.

Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab will switch out of the Skype Live tab
introduced in Skype 2.6, even though Skype itself does not support this.


New Features:

 Skype contact grouping is finally accessible to users of Skype 2.5 and  up!
The "Create contact group" and "Select contact groups to display"
 buttons from the Skype 2.5+ contact window now appear for use in the
 JAWSKey+F8 list.  Note that they do not appear in that list under Skype
2.0 even though they are present.  This is by design, because in Skype  2.0
there is no way to populate a new group without dragging contacts  with the
mouse.  Under Skype 2.5 or newer, use "Create contact group"
 to create a group, "Select groups to display" to choose which groups to
show, Ctrl+PageUp/Down and Ctrl+Home/End to move among displayed groups,
and Ctrl+C/V to copy and paste contacts into a group.  To remove a group,
find its name at the top with the JAWS cursor (you may have to click
"Groups" once to expand the group list), then right-click the group  and
choose Remove Group.  Note that work continues on making contact  grouping
features accessible without JAWS or JAWS scripts; in fact,  I am releasing
this enhancement as a stop gap, not a permanent solution.

Conference tabs are also more accessible under Skype 2.5 and later, thanks
to a technique discovered by John Greer:  Arrowing up and down through the
participants in a conference should now cause JAWS to announce the contact
names.  This facilitates acting on individual contacts, such as for starting
chats, removing participants, and getting specific participant profiles.
Home and End work too, to go to the first and last participant,
respectively.  Unfortunately, all this will not work under Skype 2.0 because
the conference tab is very different in that version.

The SayLine command behavior in the contact list has changed.  A single
press will read what up/downArrows read, as always was the case.
A double press will spell the contact's name, which is more consistent with
what a double SayLine is meant to do.  A triple press will, as has been true
for a while, bring up a virtual view of contact information.
This view may contain much more information than before though--pretty much
an entire profile for the contact, including an indication as to whether the
contact's picture is available.  I will give details about that feature at
the end of this message, for the technically curious.
To summarize then, a single press of SayLine stayed the same, a triple press
stayed the same but may provide more detail, and a double press now does
what JAWS usually does instead of mostly duplicating what a triple press
already does.

You can now type Alt+1 twice on a chat window that says, "Click here to see
previous messages" and actually get previous messages by doing so.

Ctrl+Shift+L no longer jumps to the Search Results list, since this is
now easily reached with the Tab key.  Instead, Ctrl+Shift+L now brings up a
list of all contacts and allows you to call, chat with, view the profile
for, or send a file or voice mail to the contact of your choice.
Contacts are listed both by Skype name and Skype ID, so if you know
someone's Skype ID, you can find that person easily even if he or she keeps
changing Skype names.  I also made the list of contacts support incremental
searching, so you can type several characters of a name or ID to jump
straight to it.  I'm curious who will want this, but I put it in because I
think several will.  Note that I am sort of duplicating the Skype Quick
Filter functionality here, but Quick Filtering messes up SkypeWatch, so I
doubt many JAWS users enable that feature of Skype.

Ctrl+Shift+E is a little enhanced:  A single press will, as always, read
the Events panel.  It will also quietly place the JAWS cursor there but not
activate it.  If your next command is either another Ctrl+Shift+E or a
command that activates the JAWS cursor, in other words the JAWS cursor key
or RouteJAWSToPC, the JAWS cursor is activated and restricted to the Events
panel so you can read it without running off onto other things on the
screen.  If the Events panel changes size, such as when you clear a missed
call and cause it to shrink, the restriction updates so you are still
confined to exactly what the Events panel currently shows.
The JAWS cursor is freed from this restriction when you next activate
another cursor.  Note here that there is no time limit between the first
Ctrl+Shift+E and the next CTRL+Shift+E, JAWS cursor, or RouteJAWSToPC
command.  They are not time sensitive as most repeat JAWS commands are.

I made a very significant and prolonged attempt to provide a virtual view of
the Events panel by the way.  I all but disabled it though, because there
are just too many problems with making it reliable.  If you really want to
see what I was trying to do though, you can still get to it by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+E five times.  As described above, you do not need to hurry in
typing these keystrokes.  In the virtual event view, clickable portions of
the Events panel become links, and pressing Space or Enter on a link will
click the corresponding item in the Events panel.
The virtual view will redraw itself whenever the underlying Events panel
changes.  As I said, though, I find it way too unreliable, sometimes prone
to infinite loops, often incapable of detecting links accurately, etc., so
it will probably go away quietly someday.  But it was a fun battle to fight.
<grin>

This version of the scripts may produce beeps sometimes when you arrow
through contacts and when you type letters to jump quickly to a particular
contact.  The beeps mean that the scripts can't find all the info about the
newly selected contact.  This has always happened, but JAWS didn't let you
know it.  By beeping, now it will.  If you get a beep, arrow up and down a
time or two to get all the information about the contact.
This beeping and information shortage will not occur if you are running
Skype 2.5 or later and the VCard method, described below, can be used by the
scripts.


Technical Details on the Triple SayLine View:, or, what the heck is the
VCard method?

This is exciting to me!  I discovered that, starting in Skype 2.5, typing
Ctrl+C on a contact in the Contact list copies a VCard for that contact
to the clipboard.  A VCard is basically a text format collection of data
about the contact.  I wrote script code to use this information to present a
full contact profile in the virtual view when you do a triple SayLine.
This will only happen under the following conditions, though, so I don't
cause other problems:

1.  You are running Skype 2.5 or later.

2.  You have not placed a non-text object, such as a file, on the clipboard
and left it there.  If you have text on the clipboard, it will be preserved,
and the VCard feature will still work.

3.  You have not selected multiple contacts in the list at once.
This is so that the Ctrl+C typed by the script can know that it is getting
information for the right contact.

Technically, when you have text on the clipboard, it is quickly moved and
put back to allow this feature to work.  Through a lot of testing, rapid
movement, and basically everything I could think of, I have not been able to
break this process, meaning I have not managed to produce a scenario in
which any clipboard text is lost.  If anyone does, please let me know
exactly what steps you took to do it.

If you are not getting the enhanced view on a triple SayLine, try typing
Ctrl+C on a contact once and then try again.  This will replace any
current clipboard contents with a VCard, which being a text block will
enable use of the clipboard for this feature, in case you had a file or
picture or something in the way on the clipboard.


Thanks to all for your patience during this, the longest recorded gap
between Skype script updates.  I hope the reason everyone was so patient was
that version 275 was adequate for most needs, but I also hope that all that
happened since was worth the wait. <grin>

Enjoy!



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Doug Lee                 dgl@xxxxxxxx        





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