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Keyboard Macros ???? Bill Walters Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:29:50 -0600

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Mark,

I got ECS 4 up and running tonight with voice modem board installed.  No
small task with juggling interrupts, etc.... Thankfully, I modified ECST
3.4 CFG file in tandem, so I don't have to go through a "re-configure"
to change back... Too late to test any of the phone stuff (Caller-ID
announcements, etc) though.

My 486-100 is clipping along at about 25-26 passes per second so that's
just fine by me (can't remember right now if I'm monitoring digital
inputs, but "think" I am from tinkering with it last night).

Got a "ramdisk" loaded up and speech (Mary) sounds pretty good!  Much
better than Speech-Interface-A, as expected.

However, it appears that the ability to enter macro's from the keyboard
has been deleted from the windows version.  I just reviewed the help
file and find that both Keyboard and Local Phone are ONLY supported in
DOS version.  Is that true and if so, any way around it???  My
touchscreen communicates by serial and I've been using KBFAKE program to
dupe the system into believing the strings sent from it were typed on
the keyboard and without the ability to have keyboard macros, well...
Here I go again.

Yes, yes, yes, I KNOW the dang thing (touchscreen operation via serial)
can be set up as a keypad event, but again, we get back to the inability
to control phone messages during playback (i.e., delete, skip, save as
new), or is this not true in the windows version since we're using a
different speech package and operating in a multi-tasking environment?

Well, off to switch the system back to ECST as it's late and I'm up past
my bedtime as it is!

Let me know at your convenience, please.

Bill Walters

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