[jawsscripts] Re: Jaws and volume control
- From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 23:32:59 -0700
Thank you Don, but the jaws keyboard manager suggestion doesn't seem to
work. I did exactly as you described and assigned control + F11 and Control
+ F12 to raise and lower the volume. The assigning of these hotkeys went
just fine, but when I hit these hotkeys nothing happens. Is there something
else I might be able to try? Jaws does state volume up and volume down, it
just doesn't do it. Why do you think FS never bothered to create what seems
like such a necessary hotkey? Is it not possible with Jaws? I'm thinking
that if GW Micro could pull it off, FS should not have much problems either?
(Shrug).
Andre
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 9:51 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Jaws and volume control
There are already JAWS Scripts for increasing and decreasing both the master
and voice volume. They just do not have any keystroke normally set. Go
into the Keyboard Manager, press Control + Shift + d to open the key
assignments for default. Look for the individual functions, like
IncreaseVoiceVolume(), press Control + a to add a new key assignment and
follow the prompts.
These scripts have been around since 5.1 or earlier. Now that Windows 7 and
Vista can individually set volume levels for each application with the
volume mixer, I wanted JAWS to be able to adjust the volume level for the
current application. I have been looking at this for a while. There is a
small command line program, nircmd.exe, that I can call from a script to
perform the action. The difficulty I ran into was what you were thinking.
The program does not physically open the volume mixer, but the exact
application name string in the volume mixer needs to be provided. Not only
do I not know how to get this, but it is different between Vista and Windows
7. If anyone figures out how to do this, let me know. I think it would be
nice to lower the volume of any application, such as Internet Explorer
quickly!
Don Marang
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real
substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working
on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
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From: "Andre Williams" <andre.williams.1965@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 8:03 PM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] Jaws and volume control
> Hi everyone.
>
> I have just joined this list in an attempt to save my hearing. (laugh).
>
> I am curious if anyone has managed to script jaws so that within the
> Windows
> 7 master volume control, the jaws entry can be adjusted with hotkeys.
>
> As many may or may not know, Window eyes uses a different volume control
> for
> windows sounds and the screen reader. If they can do it then why can't
> jaws,
> right? I would like to find a way of scripting jaws to accomplish this
> same
> goal.
>
> To begin, does anyone know the exact name of the volume mixer entry for
> jaws
> output? I imagine I first need to know what it is I'm going to manipulate
> before I can script it.
>
> So far I go to run and type sndvol and hit enter. The volume mixer pops up
> and I can tab to the separate audio streams.
>
> How can I find a path to the jaws audio stream in an effort to create a
> script that will allow me to adjust the volume?
> If this has already been done, please please convey how I can do this.
>
> I'm using jaws 12 on a Windows 7 home premium 64 bit computer
>
> Thanks
>
> Andre
>
>
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