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Re: [ECS] Keyboard Macros ???? Mark Gilmore Sun, 17 Jan 1999 09:14:29 -0800

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Sorry Bill, but I have no current solution to this problem
(Win "KBFAKE").

Bill Walters wrote:
> 
> 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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Mark Gilmore
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