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Keyboard-Key Type Bill Walters Wed, 09 Sep 1998 16:52:10 -0500

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Well, I've scrapped the idea of using ACE and so am back to working on
VB-DOS for touchscreen interface.  I'm pretty satisfied except in one
area:  Voice Mail Playback.  The problem with commanding voice-mail
playback from anywhere except a phone or at your "local" keyboard is
that you have no control over:

  Backspace,Forward,Keep New, Replay, Delete, Skip, Abort

since ECST (remember 3.3?) stops dead in its tracks when playing
synthetic voice.  However, in the DOC's, 4.9.4.053 mentions Keyboard-Key
Type item.  Could that possibly be used, such as (pseudo code shown)

    Keyboard-Key      Set      Serial-byte
    Speak-Messages   Set      Play
    Keyboard-Key      Set      Keyboard-Key

Intention here is to redirect keyboard input to serial device.  Don't
know if that would work.  Alternative is to define two Text type items
as DOS commands and set them to execute, such as:

Item:Kbd2Serial       Type:Text
  Text:  CTTY COM4

Item:Kbd2Kbd          Type:Text
  Text:  CTTY CON:

event would be something like (?)

   Kbd2Serial         Set         Execute
   Speak-Messages Set         Play
   Kbd2Kbd            Set         Execute



Anyone tried any of this?  Am I spinning my wheels?  Suggestion?

Bill Walters

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