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ECS Event programming question Martin Terry Sat, 20 Feb 1999 10:18:00 -0800

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Hi All-

I'm currently using ECST 3.4.020 in DOS mode, and am experimenting with
version 4.

First question - Does ECST (DOS mode) 4.x still support the Bigmouth? I'm
pretty sure the windows version does not. I just don't want to give up the
local phone button access.

Second question - For those of you that have (or had) the DOS version, how
many actions that ECS performs "stops" ECS while it processes? For example,
here's a list I've compiled that I THINK react this way:

Answering the phone with Bigmouth (recording)
Making calls with Bigmouth (dialing a number and recording an answer)
Sending Pager messages with the modem
Playing Recordings (wav or bigmouth)
Statesman TTS (Speaking)
Executing DOS commands

Also, I'm considering changing my event logic to create a "queue" for page
messages and Statesman speach.
I envision this being a FIFO text file that events place messages in, then a
single specialized event deals with reading the contents of the file and
sending the page message or speaking the text, etc.

Anybody doing something like this? I am trying to avoid overruns that occur
occasionally when I'm doing paging (for example another page message occurs
before the first one gets processed) and I'm thinking that the speach queue
would simplify lots of events that have to "talk" to me.

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