Navigation:  7: Speech Environments > 7.11: Window-Eyes and User Profiles

User Profiles

 

User profiles allow Window-Eyes to be customized with various speech environments either on a stand alone machine, or across a network. Each profile manages its own speech environment of sets, synthesizers, Braille displays, and all local and global settings.

 

You can access User Profiles selecting this option from the File Menu:

 

 U = User Profiles

 

The User Profiles dialog is laid out in the following manner:

 

 P = Profile Name to Add

 

The Profile Name to Add edit box allows you enter the name of a profile that you want to create.

 

 A = Add Profile

 

The Add Profile button adds the name entered into the Profile Name to Add edit box. Selecting this button will add the specified profile name to the Current Profiles multi-selection list box (which is discussed below), and create a default Window-Eyes environment specific to that profile. If you have a profile name selected in the Add/Update Using Settings From list box (discussed below), and you select this button, the new user will be created using the existing environment from the selected user.

 

For example, if you have entered the name Kyle as your new profile name, then select Stan from the Add/Update Using Settings From list box, then select this button, the Kyle profile would be created with a Window-Eyes environment exactly like the one that Stan has set up.

 

Note that this button will only be enabled when the Profile Name to Add edit box is not empty.

 

 S = Add/Update Using Settings From

 

This list box contains the same profiles listed in the Current Profiles multi-selection list box. These profiles are listed for updating existing profile environments.

 

 C = Current Profiles

 

This multi-selection list box contains all of the user profiles that have been added to the Window-Eyes User Profile system. Each of the profiles listed have their own Window-Eyes environment separate from the other profiles listed.

 

 U = Update Selected Profile

 

With this button, you have the ability to update one or more profiles with settings that already exist in another profile.

 

For example, say that you have the users Wendy, Stan, and Eric already defined as different Window-Eyes profiles. Then you decide that you have gotten more comfortable with, and would like to use the profile called Stan. To accomplish this task, you would select the profile called Eric from the Current Profiles multi-selection list box, then select the profile called Stan from the Add/Update Using Settings From list box, and then select the Update Selected Profile button. The environment that belonged to the Eric profile would then be replaced with a copy of the environment that belongs to the Stan profile. If you wanted to apply the Stan profile to multiple profiles, you would select those profiles from the Current Profiles multi-selection list box, and with the Stan profile still selected in the Add/Update Using Settings From list box, select the update button.

 

 R = Remove Selected Profile

 

Selecting this button will cause each selected profile in the Current Profiles multi-selection list box to be removed from the User Profiles system. When a profile is removed, the Window-Eyes environment associated with that profile (sets, synthesizer selection, Braille display selection, and all local and global settings) will also be removed. This procedure cannot be reversed.

 

You can also use the Window-Eyes command line support for user profiles to specify that Window-Eyes launch using a specific profile.

 

To perform this function, on a command line type:

 

wineyes /uProfileName

 

where ProfileName is the name of the Window-Eyes profile that you want to load when Window-Eyes launches. For example, if you wanted Window-Eyes to launch using the Wendy profile, you would type:

 

wineyes /uWendy

 

If the profile name contains spaces, you would place the profile name in quotes on the command line like this:

 

wineyes /u"Wendy with Fast Speech"

 

Setting the Active Profile

 

It is possible that you would want to change the current profile to another previously defined profile for any number of reasons. Maybe you are using Window-Eyes in a computer lab, and you are not allowed to log in or out of the computer. If someone had been using Window-Eyes before you, and had made changes to the current profile, you may want to load your own settings instead of using the default. Or imagine that you have one profile set up for everyday use, and another profile set up for creating or modifying set files. You would want the ability to switch between those profiles to keep your current set files from being changed.

 

Like most Window-Eyes features, setting the active profile is a very easy process.

 

 L = Set Active Profile

 

Selecting this option brings up a dialog with the following controls:

 

 A = Available Profiles

 

This list box displays all of the Window-Eyes profiles available for use. To set the current profile to one of the profiles listed in this list box, TAB to the list box, arrow up or down to select the profile you want to set active, and press ENTER.

 

 C = Current Profile

 

This read only edit box displays the Window-Eyes profile that is currently active.

 

 F = Current Profile Folder

 

This read only edit box displays the folder name of the Window-Eyes environment for the current user. This folder is located in the Profile Path folder.

 

 P = Current Profile Path

 

This read only edit box displays the full path Window-Eyes environment for the current user.

 

 O = Open Profile Path

 

This button displays a Windows Explorer window containing the files located in the current user profile path.

 

The All Users Profile

 

When a new user launches Window-Eyes for the first time, a copy of the default All Users profile will be made for that user. You can choose to modify the speech settings of the All Users profile by selecting All Users in the Set Active Profile dialog, and pressing ENTER. Once selected, the user profile environment space will switch to the All Users profile. You can choose to create new profiles in the All Users environment, or modify the default All Users profile. If the default All Users profile is modified, those settings will be used when Window-Eyes creates a profile for a new user. Changing the voice settings of the All Users profile will also affect the voice used when at the Windows login screen.