Dan.Kysor@f999.n203.z1.fidonet.org (Dan Kysor) (01/15/91)
Index Number: 12961
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well i guess this question was bound to be asked. i recently set up pc menu
and i wanted to put on several screen reviews as choices from the main menu.
failing that, maybe i could put 2 or 3 choices in the autoexec such as <f for
flipper & <J for jaws etc. also, it would neat to be able to shut off the
speech if a sighted person uses my computer. any suggestions? is there
anything on a text file on how to do this? dan, out of sight, out of my mind!
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Internet: Dan.Kysor@f999.n203.z1.fidonet.orgWilliam.Wilson@f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (William Wilson) (01/15/91)
Index Number: 12971
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
DK> well i guess this question was bound to be asked. i recently
DK> set up pc menu and i wanted to put on several screen reviews as
DK> choices from the main menu. failing that, maybe i could put 2
DK> or 3 choices in the autoexec such as <f for flipper & <J for
DK> jaws etc. also, it would neat to be able to shut off the
DK> speech if a sighted person uses my computer. any suggestions?
Dan,
Selecting different speech programs from within the AUTOEXEC.BAT can
be pretty easily accomplished with a batch file utility like
BATQUEST.ZIP. (Available via freq or downloading from here) Basically,
what it does is exits at different errorlevels according to what key is
hit, as determined on the command line, and then you go to the
appropriate label in the batch file.
For example:
@echo off
path c:\;c:\dos;c:\system
prompt $e[5BlinkLink $e[0$p$g
echo Hit an F to load Flipper
echo Hit a V to load Vocal-Eyes
echo Or hit an S to run speechless!
batquest "Your choice?" fvs
if errorlevel 3 goto end
if errorlevel 2 goto eyes
if errorlevel 1 goto flipper
:flipper
cd \flipper
flipper d1
flipload main.flp silent.flp
cd \
goto end
:eyes
cd \ve
dectalk /!c1
ve /!f3
ve /f1ve f2qedit f3telix
cd \
goto end
:end
(My apologies to the respective speech producers if I goofed on the
loading commands, but we're going from memory here!)
Ok, if, however, you want to do all this from a menu and have the
ability to change speech programs or go silent without a reboot, you'll
need to add some tsr utilities like MARK and RELEASE to all this. I
believe they can be found in a file here called TSRUTILS.ZIP, but I
could be wrong on the specific name!
Hope this helps...
Willie
... BlinkTalk, Dr. Deb and Silver in Pittsburgh!
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