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Progress bar script - feature wantedDate:
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The script gives the user the choice of either having the state of the progress bar read aloud in sequence of the actual progress percentage (1% 2% 3%, etc) or every so often (given in seconds). Great features, both of them. My wish though, would be that it could be set differently for different windows. Let me give you an example, to illustrate the benefits.
If you let the script do its default job, to read the progress bar state, every so often - let's say every fifth second. Now, let's try to install a software, of some size. The installation is going on for three minutes, in which time you every fifth second will hear the state of the progress bar. This can be rather wearysome, and I have decided to rather have the script anouncing to me, every second percentage (2%, 4%, 6% etc).
With this setting, there is another drawback. When for instance, I check to see if there is new mail, in OE, by pressing CTRL-M, the speech will tend to report ALL the quickly moving percentages of the progressbar. In this case, it would have been more convenient with the script only anouncing every fifth (or whatever) second. Same thing is the case when changing pages in IE.
Could the Progress bar script have been given one of the two following features:
1. The user could set different behavior setings, for different windows/screens?
2. A hotkey would quickly switch the 'reporting mode' of the script between second interval, or percentage interval, which both could be adjusted seperately in the scrip's setup menu.
Also, is it possible to implement the following feature:
Sometimes, you want to 'keep an eye' on a certain process, eventhough you are doing other things on the computer. For instance, if your PC is busy with a CD burning job, you want to do something on the internet, meanwhile. Would be great, if the script could be 'locked' to keep an eye on the burning process window, giving the beeps that indicate, the progress bar's state, even if I am not focusing the Burning process window. This LOCKING feature, could be only temporary, and have a hotkey for turning it on. So, when you have a process you want to keep track of, you would go to its window, hit a hotkey, and the 'keep an eye on me' function, would be turned on. You can go on doing whatever you want on your computer, having the progress bar script sounding the progress sounds from the process being tracked. When that process is finished, the 'keep an eye on me' function, is automatically turned off.
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The script gives the user the choice of either having the state of the progress bar read aloud in sequence of the actual progress percentage (1% 2% 3%, etc) or every so often (given in seconds). Great features, both of them. My wish though, would be that it could be set differently for different windows. Let me give you an example, to illustrate the benefits.
If you let the script do its default job, to read the progress bar state, every so often - let's say every fifth second. Now, let's try to install a software, of some size. The installation is going on for three minutes, in which time you every fifth second will hear the state of the progress bar. This can be rather wearysome, and I have decided to rather have the script anouncing to me, every second percentage (2%, 4%, 6% etc).
With this setting, there is another drawback. When for instance, I check to see if there is new mail, in OE, by pressing CTRL-M, the speech will tend to report ALL the quickly moving percentages of the progressbar. In this case, it would have been more convenient with the script only anouncing every fifth (or whatever) second. Same thing is the case when changing pages in IE.
Could the Progress bar script have been given one of the two following features:
1. The user could set different behavior setings, for different windows/screens?
2. A hotkey would quickly switch the 'reporting mode' of the script between second interval, or percentage interval, which both could be adjusted seperately in the scrip's setup menu.
Also, is it possible to implement the following feature:
Sometimes, you want to 'keep an eye' on a certain process, eventhough you are doing other things on the computer. For instance, if your PC is busy with a CD burning job, you want to do something on the internet, meanwhile. Would be great, if the script could be 'locked' to keep an eye on the burning process window, giving the beeps that indicate, the progress bar's state, even if I am not focusing the Burning process window. This LOCKING feature, could be only temporary, and have a hotkey for turning it on. So, when you have a process you want to keep track of, you would go to its window, hit a hotkey, and the 'keep an eye on me' function, would be turned on. You can go on doing whatever you want on your computer, having the progress bar script sounding the progress sounds from the process being tracked. When that process is finished, the 'keep an eye on me' function, is automatically turned off.
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