It's not for me, but for someone who is very old, but needs to access two
screen readers. The idea is that he has a hotkey to run the script,
David.
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From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Soronel Haetir
Sent: 03 November 2020 20:45
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Program to switch between screen readers
Is this really a common enough operation to create a specific script for? Seems
easy enough to just exit the current screen reader and then have a key
combination assigned to shortcuts for the target screen readers. (I would
probably go with ctrl+alt+j and ctrl+alt+n but that's just me)
On 11/3/20, reynoldsdavid46@xxxxxxxxx <reynoldsdavid46@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Florian,
You've confirmed my idea of going down the psutil route,
Many thanks,
David.
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Florian Beijers
Sent: 03 November 2020 17:17
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Program to switch between screen readers
You'd have to find a way to check the currently running processes for
a given process and it's a simple if statement from there.
nvda = "Nvda.exe" in (p.name() for p in psutil.process_iter()) if nvda:
kill nvda
run jaws
else
kill JAWS
run NVDA
To kill either application you can run the shell command:
taskkill /f //im nvda.exe
I'm sure Python has some way of initiating what would essentially be a
command from the windows+r run dialog.
FLorian
2020-11-03 17:50 GMT+01:00, reynoldsdavid46@xxxxxxxxx
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The subject says it all, and I thought rather than re-invent the
wheel, I'd put it out there.
In short, if jfw is running, I want to close it down, and start nvda,
and vice versa.
I reckon it should be possible in Python, but if there's a better
way, I'd be glad toknow,
Many thanks for any thoughts,
David.
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