We are now shipping Window-Eyes 2.0. This version of Window-Eyes supports
both Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. The demo is available on our BBS at
219-489-5281. It can also be gotten from the URL
ftp://ftp.gwmicro.com/we/wedemo.zip. Following is a summary of
improvements in this new version:
*** Changes from Window-Eyes 1.1 to 2.0
Windows 95 is now fully supported.
We have completely redesigned the global settings interface.
We have added a global menu and from this menu you can make
global changes to the voice or verbosity settings. The global
settings take affect immediately when you make the change. We
retrieve the global settings from wineyes.000 every time Window-
Eyes is started. To save the global settings to wineyes.000
choose the Apply Settings option from the global menu.
The verbosity settings can now be global.
We have split the verbosity dialog into 6 pull-down menus.
We removed the Voice Settings option from the general menu
and replaced it with the Global Settings option on the global
menu.
The Capture Graphic dialog has been redesigned to include
more information. You can tab to a read-only edit box to get
the Associated File. This file name is the name of the graphic dictionary
that is currently associated with the active application. Another read-only
edit box gives you the Current dictionary file that the graphic you are
defining came from. Finally, a list box lists the dictionaries currently
being used by the application. Window-Eyes will put the graphic in the
dictionary that is selected in the list boxwhen you exit the dialog. These
changes allow you to have full control over the bubble-up of graphic
dictionaries and where the labeled graphics go.
Set2text and text2set now work in DOS and Windows.
There is a new Window Information dialog on the file menu to
give you the currently active module, window, and class information.
This information is used by Window-Eyes when it makes set file associations.
There is also a button in this dialog that lets you associate the
set file with the window class. Normally, Window-Eyes makes set
file associations with the window name, but this can cause problems
with applications like Write and Netscape where the window name
is different depending upon whether or not you start the application
with or without command-line parameters. Associating with the class
also solves problems when you launch Window-Eyes after an application is
running.
The title bar format has changed. The new format looks
like the following:
Window-Eyes (Active: file name Associated: file name)
This format will show you the currently active and associated set
file names. This will be useful if you open a set file or load
one with a hyperactive window or a cursoring key. You can get
the old title bar information from the Module and Class Info dialog
on the file menu.
Window-Eyes will now always prompt you when you save a set
file if the association is going to change. If you choose yes
the association is changed and if you choose no the set is saved,
without changing the association.
We changed the voice settings to say global rather than
default when global settings are turned on. So for example in
the screen menu it would say "rate = global disabled".
We changed the offset check boxes in the user window
coordinates, hyperactive window coordinates, and float window
coordinates dialogs to a pair of radio buttons. So for example the offset
from left check box is now a pair of radio buttons that let you
choose between offset from left or offset from right. This makes
the operation of user window offsets much more clear.
Options to run Set to Text and Text to Set have been added to the file menu.
We have removed the Set File and Window Association items from the
File Close menu and replaced them with the Set File Association option that
permanently removes the association.
The way that Window-Eyes handles duplicate hot key and cursoring
key definitions has changed. We now pop up a dialog that allows
you to replace the current definition, replace the current
definition and then redefine the old definition, or cancel. So
for example if you pressed control-c for prior character and then
pressed the Replace Key button WE would define control-c as the
prior character and undefine character. If you chose the Replace
and Redefine Key button WE would also put you on the entry in the
list box for character so that you could easily redefine it.
We now look for the wineyes.ini file first in the windows
directory, and then in the directory where Window-Eyes is installed.
We added the Allow Auto Redraw option to the general menu that
allows you to turn automatic Window-Eyes redraws on or off for the
current program. Normally you will not need to use this option unless
an application can not correctly handle requests to redraw itself. If this
happens the screen will get corrupted and you should turn redraws off for
this application.
We added an option to the global menu that lets you adjust the
minimum graphic size that WE will store. This option is stored in
the [misc] section of the wineyes.ini and it ranges from 2 to 10
with a default of 7.
Window-Eyes now supports the Windows and Application keys on the
104-key keyboard. We support these keys both in Windows 3.1 and in
Windows 95 and they are allowed as modifiers for hot keys and cursoring keys.
These keys are included in the Key Enhancements option of the Special Keys
menu on the Keyboard menu.
We have added a WE cursor. The WE cursor works exactly like the
current Window-Eyes mouse hot keys, but it doesn't move the mouse.
The numpad-- key toggles between the WE cursor and the Mouse Pointer.
The insert-numpad-- will synchronize the inactive
cursor to the active cursor so if the WE cursor is active and you
press this hot key the mouse pointer will be moved to the WE cursor
and if the mouse pointer is active and you press this key the WE
cursor will be moved to the mouse pointer. Currently the WE cursor
toggle is global to Window-Eyes. We are interested in comments as
to whether or not this should be saved with each set file. We are also
interested in comments as to whether or not the location of the WE
cursor should be saved with each set.
We have cleaned up all known problems with hyperactive windows.
They should perform much faster. We have removed many of the trigger
options because we felt that they did not make sense in Windows. The
current trigger options are any change, contains attribute, contains
caret, contains focus, contains string, does not contain attribute,
does not contain caret, does not contain focus, and does not contain
string.
We moved the hyperactive status option from the general menu
to the global menu. The option now allows you to set the status
to off, messages off, or messages on. If you choose the messages on
option Window-Eyes announces when a hyperactive window triggers.
This option is no longer saved with the set file.
We have added the active file list option to the file menu. This
option pops up a dialog that lists the currently active set file
and the dictionaries that are currently being used including
dictionaries that are being bubbled up.
When Window-Eyes reads a dialog or you mouse over the default button we say
"default" to tell you that this is the default button.
The hyperactive triggers contains string and does not contain string
now look at graphic descriptions previously graphics were ignored.
We have added a hot key for the Window-Eyes application help feature.
The hot key pops up a dialog that is similar to the capture graphic dialog.
It has a read-only edit box containing the help information, a read-only edit
box showing the original overlap name that this information was associated
with, a read-only edit box showing the current overlap name, a list box
containing all overlap names in the current bubble list for associations, an
edit button, an associate with window button, and an associate with class
button. If you click the edit button the help information becomes editable.
If you click the associate with window button the information is specifically
associated with this window. If you click the associate with class
button the information is associated with the class which is more
general. The information is saved to the overlap that is highlighted in
the listbox when you exit the dialog.
We have added a feature that automatically tries to label graphics with
their tool tips. We put the graphics in the dictionary that is associated
with the current overlap window and then you must save the dictionary.
When the hot key is finished it says "auto label graphics finished". You
can interrupt the hot key with the escape key. Window-Eyes will say "auto
label graphics aborted" to let you know that you have interrupted the hot
key.
We have added the Line Filter pull down to the screen menu. This
pull down has three options. Status can be set to Off, On, or Read-To-End.
Position can be set from 0 to 4. Characters can be set to any string up to 5
characters. If status is set to on Window-Eyes looks at the value
specified by the position setting for any of the characters spefied in the
character setting and if it finds them the line is not spoken. The
read-to-end option only filters lines when you are using the read-to-end
feature. This feature is useful to filter out quotes in mail messages.
To do this set characters to ">" and set status to either on or read-to-end
depending upon how you read email. The position option is useful when the
greater than character does not appear in column 0 of the line.
The read title/status hot key now reads the title and status of the
focus window and then the active window. This allows you to see the title
and status of a Program Manager group or a word processing document.
We don't read titles of focus windows such as buttons where it doesn't make
sense to read them.
We added the Load Before Startup option to the file menu for Windows 95.
This option causes Window-Eyes to load before network login prompts.
We have added a new option to the cursoring keys. The Ignore
Speak Windows option will cause the speak windows to be ignored for
twice the length of the cursor delay. You can use this in cases like help
where you want to use a speak window, but you want to have the tab key read
a light bar.
The hyperactive windows can now execute a hot key as one of the
commands.
We have added a new hot key. The route to specified highlight hot key
allows you to specify a window to search for a highlight and if one is found
route the mouse to it. This is useful to read context in the spell checker
of a word processor. To use the key do the following:
a. run a word processor and get a document with misspelled words in it
b. run the spell checker
c. do a full screen find for the first misspelled word
d. pop up the control panel
e. choose the mouse menu
f. choose the specify mouse highlight window dialog
g. answer yes to associate the window
h. define the route to specified highlight hot key
i. exit the control panel
j. press the hot key
The hot key will put the mouse on the misspelled word in the document
allowing you to read in context. The associated highlight window has been
saved so from now on you need only to use the hot key to read in context.
Michael D. Lawler
FIDO Michael.Lawler at 1:236/55 Voice 219-489-3671
Fax 219-489-2608 BBS 219-489-5281
Internet mdlawler@gwmicro.com
GW Micro, Inc., Product Support and Development
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