From:

 "Chip Orange" <lists3717@comcast.net>

Subject:

 RE: wineyes reading date

Date:

 Sun, Feb 5, 2012 11:33:59 am

All great ideas David.

It really is a good first project for someone, as you could do the minimum
asked for to convince yourself you can do it; then, you could follow all of
David's suggestions to encompass all the various forms and languages used
for dates by WE users, making it a much more robust app (giving it plenty of
room for you to learn more as you go).

Chip


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David [mailto:elephant@tele2.no]
> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 3:35 AM
> To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com; gw-apps@gwmicro.com
> Cc: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
> Subject: Re: wineyes reading date
>
> Chip,
> An interesting idea. And as a start-out, it might be as easy
> as you described. Hopefully, this message won't discourage
> anyone from getting such a thing going. Just wanted to point
> out, that although it might be a starting point, it might not
> end there.
>
> I don't know all languages. Yet, in the three Scandinavian
> languages - Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish - we speak the
> dates backward from what you are doing. That is, you would
> say February the third; whilst a Scandinave would say Third
> February. Accordingly, he would also write it things like 03.
> February. And, on top of it all, he would spell his monthname
> differently. So, to save the app developer a bit of headache
> at a later state, when you decide to internationalize your
> app, let the monthname-strings you are looking for, be in
> your XML file. That way, you can easily add on more language
> specific names later on. And, let the script look for a
> number immediately Before and After the monthname.
>
> First you want to make it a real script - maybe not at day
> one, but sometime down the road - maybe you should let the
> user decide which of the two English ways he want it spoken
> as well. You know - February 3rd - or, third of February.
>
> Just some thoughts, that might be helpful to include already
> at the set-out of the app idea. Easier to build right from
> the beginning - than to have to modify at a later state. Smile.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chip Orange" <lists3717@comcast.net>
> To: <gw-apps@gwmicro.com>
> Cc: <gw-scripting@gwmicro.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 4:15 AM
> Subject: RE: wineyes reading date
>
>
> > Dennis,
> >
> > I'm really stretched for time; but, I was hoping to
> interest someone who's
> > been learning how to write macros, and who's been looking
> around for a
> > project to start out with. This seems like a good one for
> a starting
> > scripter, as it won't have variations caused by different
> releases of
> > Windows, it won't be too big, etc. Anyone willing to try
> this one? You'd
> > just need to try intercepting spoken strings and find a month name
> > followed
> > by a number, and alter the number slightly so 2 is said as
> second, 3 as
> > third, and so on.
> >
> > Chip
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dennis Long [mailto:dennisl1982@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 6:42 PM
> >> To: gw-apps@gwmicro.com
> >> Subject: Re: wineyes reading date
> >>
> >> could you create one?
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Chip Orange" <lists3717@comcast.net>
> >> To: <gw-apps@gwmicro.com>
> >> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 6:28 PM
> >> Subject: RE: wineyes reading date
> >>
> >>
> >> > interesting idea for an app.
> >> >
> >> > Chip
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >> From: Dennis Long [mailto:dennisl1982@gmail.com]
> >> >> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:45 PM
> >> >> To: gw-apps@gwmicro.com
> >> >> Subject: wineyes reading date
> >> >>
> >> >> is there way to get wineyes to read february 3rd instead of
> >> >> february 03?
> >> >> thanks.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >
>