speakup and dialog

speakup and dialog

[Donald Raikes]

Hello,

 

I am wondering if it is possible to use the dialog package with speakup.

I want to create several shell scripts that present information and ask for choices/input via the dialog package, however, I have discovered that speakup doesn't seem to work very well with ncurses packages in general like dialog.

 

Any tips on how to configure either dialog or speakup to make them work well together would be appreciated.

Re: speakup and dialog

[Willem van der Walt]

You might be able to use dialog with highlight tracking enabled in 
speakup.
I use lots of ncurses packages with speakup without problems, but in most 
cases, with some configuration changes to the package.
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Donald Raikes wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I am wondering if it is possible to use the dialog package with speakup.
> 
> I want to create several shell scripts that present information and ask for choices/input via the dialog package, however, I have discovered that speakup doesn't seem to work very well with ncurses packages in general like dialog.
> 
>  
> 
> Any tips on how to configure either dialog or speakup to make them work well together would be appreciated.
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

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Re: speakup and dialog

[Kirk Reiser]

It has been a long time since I did very much bash script programming
so I'm not sure of the current state of dialog.  The problem is that a
lot of curses based programs do not automatically use the show cursor
mode of ncurses so speakup has nothing to track.  You can either
explore dialog for a configuration setting to have the cursor shown or
use a package such as libnewt or whiptail which both have pretty good
show cursor modes.  My guess is however that dialog probably does have
a show cursor mode if you hunt for it.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Donald Raikes wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> I am wondering if it is possible to use the dialog package with speakup.
>
> I want to create several shell scripts that present information and ask for choices/input via the dialog package, however, I have discovered that speakup doesn't seem to work very well with ncurses packages in general like dialog.
>
>
>
> Any tips on how to configure either dialog or speakup to make them work well together would be appreciated.
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

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Re: speakup and dialog

[Chris Brannon]

Kirk Reiser wrote:
> My guess is however that dialog probably does have
> a show cursor mode if you hunt for it.

Here's the ticket, I think.
export DIALOGOPTS='--visit-items'
And then run the program that uses dialog.
Suggested to me by Tyler S.

-- Chris

Re: speakup and dialog

[Steve Holmes]

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"I think," you say? Well let me clarify here.  This is exactly what we
want! I just tried this out with my script I use for copying selected
talking books to my Victor Reader Stream and the thing is beautiful
now.

For even more details about this option, look at the man page for
dialog and look for --visit-items and also look for DIALOGOPTS.
Looking this items up will give you the full story.

Thanks Chris, for the suggestion.  I have added to my .profile for
permenant use.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:06:09AM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Kirk Reiser wrote:
> > My guess is however that dialog probably does have
> > a show cursor mode if you hunt for it.
> 
> Here's the ticket, I think.
> export DIALOGOPTS='--visit-items'
> And then run the program that uses dialog.
> Suggested to me by Tyler S.
> 
> -- Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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Re: speakup and dialog

[Garrett Klein]

You have a text-based victor reader stream frontend? I'm interested ...

Garrett

Steve Holmes wrote:
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> 
> "I think," you say? Well let me clarify here.  This is exactly what we
> want! I just tried this out with my script I use for copying selected
> talking books to my Victor Reader Stream and the thing is beautiful
> now.
> 
> For even more details about this option, look at the man page for
> dialog and look for --visit-items and also look for DIALOGOPTS.
> Looking this items up will give you the full story.
> 
> Thanks Chris, for the suggestion.  I have added to my .profile for
> permenant use.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:06:09AM -0600, Chris Brannon wrote:
>> Kirk Reiser wrote:
>>> My guess is however that dialog probably does have
>>> a show cursor mode if you hunt for it.
>> Here's the ticket, I think.
>> export DIALOGOPTS='--visit-items'
>> And then run the program that uses dialog.
>> Suggested to me by Tyler S.
>>
>> -- Chris
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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