Hah, yaa feel free! Stefik On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Jared Wright <wright.jaredm@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Very nice. Now I just have to write your guys' Window Eyes' support for > you. *smile* > > Jared > > > On 2/25/2010 5:45 PM, Andreas Stefik wrote: > >> Sodbeans is built on the NetBeans platform. So, any plugin you write for >> NetBeans is fully supported by Sodbeans out of the box. >> The only difference is you also get our custom text-to-speech tools and >> accessibility fixes/enhancements. Since sodbeans is modular, you can even >> write plugins that build on sodbeans specific code, which gives you the >> opportunity to control the way the environment reads things, or anything >> else you want. >> >> So yaa, like NetBeans, Sodbeans is pretty flexible, >> >> Just to give you a quick example, if you want to force NetBeans to read >> something, and you have Sodbeans installed, you can write: >> >> TextToSpeech speech = Lookup.getDefault().lookup(TextToSpeech.class); >> >> This will dynamically load up TTS for your platform and screen reader (not >> all are supported yet, but still). >> >> You can then say: >> >> speech.speak("whatever"), or you can pass special flags that put your text >> in our priority systems. >> >> Anyway, that's just one example, >> >> Stefik >> > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > >