That sounds interesting and I will follow up that angle of the additional
scripts for Skype etc. If the VB scripts are made available, I'll probably
modify the code myself if I think they need improving (smile).
Brian Hartgen
Hi Bryan,
The developer did say that there will be scripts available for Messenger and Skype, and rumour has it that he will make the visual basic scripts open-source so as to improve the enthusiasm to use Thunder. However, thanks for the comments, and I would say give it a try and see how you go on with it.
Brian Hartgen wrote:Hi Chris
It was interesting to read your comments about thunder. However, the developers of Thunder are very clear that it provides access to the essential Windows components, together with Word, Outlook Express and Webbie for accessing the Internet. Admittedly, I haven't tried it yet, although I will be reviewing it for the next Infotech magazine. But I just wanted to point out that the intention as far as I know is that it is not designed to support applications such as Windows Messenger and some of the others you pointed out. It was great to read the comments as long as we remember what it's all about.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ibby Karbhari" <ibbyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 2:00 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Thunder comments
I guess it is simply "what you pay for, is what you get."
As it is free, well...
I wouldn't even have it anywhere near my PC.
Ibby.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Hallsworth
Sent: 19 August 2006 13:38
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Thunder comments
Dear all,
HYPERLINK "mailto:I@m"I'm writing to report on my views of Thunder. I'm
trying it again, and it is quite good, as stated previously. However, I am
not impressed, as it definitely does not read out conversations in
MSN/Windows/Windows Live Messenger. Also, when I want to compose e-mail in
Outlook Express, Thunder does not announce what characters I'm deleting
using the backspace key, although it does when pressing the forward delete
key. Thirdly, Thunder hardly works in either Mozilla Firefox or Thunderbird,
which is quite annoying, since that's my favourite e-mail client to date as
it's more secure. Finally, I'm using the Eloquence TTS Engine, and, if you
press the right square bracket key, it says something like right score
bracket, which is strange. Finally (and I mean finally), Thunder says quote
when you press the apostrophe character, which is a bit confusing.
I hope you find these comments useful, and I look forward to hear from you.
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