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This document describes features that have been added to Tinytalk in
version 1.6.
AUTO-POPUP READING CUSTOMIZATION
Several menu options have been added to allow more control over how auto-
popup windows are read. They are mainly for use when Tinytalk's normal way
of reading these windows doesn't seem to work. All of them are on the
alternate (Alt-M) menu.
OPTION 8: LIGHTBAR DETECTION IN AUTO-POPUP WINDOWS
If this option is turned off, auto-popup windows will not be scanned for
lightbars. The default is on. The main use for this option is in cases
where several different colors are used in a window, but there is no moving
lightbar.
OPTION 9: ALLOW SINGLE-LINE AUTO-POPUPS
If this option is turned off, Tinytalk will not recognize boxes that
contain only one line of text. The default is on. The main use for this
option is for applications that draw "buttons" within dialog box windows.
OPTION A: LIGHTBAR SCAN DIRECTION
This option controls what happens when Tinytalk is scanning a window for
lightbars and it finds more than one color that could represent a bar. If
this is set to "up," the default, Tinytalk will scan the window from the
bottom up and pick the bottommost color as the bar. If it is set to "down"
Tinytalk will pick the topmost color.
This option also affects the way Tinytalk detects lightbars in defined
lightbar windows if you don't specify a color.
DEFINED WINDOWS
CURSOR DETECT WINDOWS
"Cursor detect" has been added to the list of window "when" types (set with
the F8 key). A cursor detect window is activated when the cursor moves
into the window. It will not re-activate unless the cursor moves out and
back in. Cursor detect windows are useful for reading isolated data entry
fields that forms mode won't pick up. They can also be used in conjunction
with window naming (see below) to tell you what section of the screen
you're in.
WINDOW NAMING
You can give each defined window in a configuration a name. You do this by
selecting the window in review mode and pressing Ctrl-N. Tinytalk will
prompt you for a name, which can be any length you want. Press ENTER when
you've finished entering the name. If you give a window a name, you will
hear the name, rather than the number, when you select the window in review
mode. The name will also be displayed when using the VIEW option in
TTCONF.
Window names can currently be used for two purposes (later versions of
Tinytalk may make more use of them). First, when you're setting up a
complicated configuration, window names let you document what you're doing.
For example, a window for reading a status line could be named "status."
This is helpful if you set up a configuration and need to change it later;
you won't have to ask yourself questions like "what on earth was I using
window 6 for?"
Second, you can tell Tinytalk to announce the window's name whenever the
window is read. You can turn announcement of a window's name on or off by
selecting the window (if you haven't already done so) in review mode and
pressing Alt-F9, which toggles announcement on or off. The default is off.
This is useful if you have several watch windows set up and want to know
which one activated. You can also use name announcement to let you know
when your cursor enters a particular part of the screen. You do this by
setting up a cursor detect window with a "what" type (set by Shift-F8) of
"none," naming it and turning announcement on.
SETTING LIGHTBAR ATTRIBUTES
When manually setting foreground and background colors for lightbar windows
(using the F9 and Shift-F9 keys), you can specify "anything" for either
foreground or background. For example, "anything on green" would read any
text with a green background, regardless of the foreground color.
If you set a window's colors to "black on black" Tinytalk will try to
determine the lightbar color automatically (Previous versions had no way to
re-enable automatic detection after setting colors manually).
SEARCH WINDOWS
If you use F8 to set a window's "when" type to "search," decide to accept
the default search string but forget to press ENTER and then start using
Shift-F8 to set the "what" type, Tinytalk will pretend that you pressed
ENTER to accept the default. This was added because people were forgetting
to press ENTER and winding up with empty search strings.
By default, search strings are case-sensitive. Option B on the alternate
(Alt-M) menu lets you tell Tinytalk to ignore case in search windows. This
option affects all search windows in a configuration.
INDEPENDENT CURSOR
In previous versions, moving the independent cursor vertically (Alt-Y or
Alt-N) always read whatever was specified by the vertical output option for
the regular cursor. In this version, option T on the main (M) menu
specifies what gets read when the independent cursor moves vertically. The
default is lines. Note that regardless of the setting, the independent
cursor will always move up or down one line.
END-OF-LINE OPTIONS
Menu option S (CR at end of line, introduced in 1.5) has now been made more
general. It is now titled "end of line" and lets you select either a space
(equivalent to "off" in 1.5), a CR (equivalent to "on" in 1.5), a period,
or a comma. The latter will cause most synthesizers to pause at the end of
each line (usually long pause for period and short pause for comma); these
may be useful for things like listening to directory listings where things
tend to run together.
On some synthesizers (particularly the Doubletalk), BIOS output will not be
spoken correctly if this option is set to "space."
TTCONF OPTIONS
SENDING FILES
TTCONF now allows you to send the contents of a file directly to your
synthesizer. This is useful for sending dictionary files to synthesizers
such as the Doubletalk with built-in dictionaries. To send a file, type
TTCONF SEND followed by a filename, or pick the "SEND" option from TTCONF's
menu. TTCONF will read the file in raw binary mode and send it directly to
the synthesizer with no translation or filtering.
This option can't be used to access the internal Dectalk's dictionary
because the Dectalk requires a special access protocol.
UNREGISTERING REGISTERED COPIES
If you're a registered user, you may run into situations where you'd
like to give someone else an unregistered copy of Tinytalk to evaluate, but
all you have is your registered copy, which you can't legally copy for
other people. TTCONF now provides an "unregister" option; type TTCONF
UNREG followed by a file name (which can have wildcards, like TT*.EXE) or
pick the "unregister" option from TTCONF's menu and enter a file name.
Tinytalk will remove the registration information from the specified files.
Normally you'd first make a copy of your Tinytalk files somewhere other
than where you usually keep them and specify that directory as part of your
file name. If you inadvertently unregister your own files, use UPDATE to
restore them (be careful; if you specify "*.*" to TTCONF UNREG and you're
in the directory with UPDATE, UPDATE itself will get unregistered! To
avoid this, don't specify "*.*"; "TT*.EXE" is the best way to specify "all
Tinytalk files).
MISCELLANEOUS
Tinytalk now includes the necessary internal "hooks" to work in conjunction
with a synthesizer-independent pronunciation dictionary program that we are
currently developing.
TTSOUND now supports the indexing which is now available on the Soundingboard.
You will need a version of SB.COM that supports indexing.
CVTCONF, the configuration-conversion utility, now requires a registered
copy of Tinytalk to be running. This allows us to distribute CVTCONF on
BBS systems so that registered users can download an upgrade without having
to get a copy of CVTCONF from us.