[JWM] jwm for the blind

[Will Davies]

David Grundey wrote:
 > Hi
 >     Im trying to make the menu talk to a blind person  When i use F12 
then
 > arrow keys is there any way i can access which menu ited is 
highlighted so
 > i can use a program like flite to speek a hightited menu item. This 
is for
 > the puppy linux project which seems to be going down the route of a
 > command line type of menu.
 >
 > Yours topaz
 >
David
I've just opened a new thread on the murga forum for this with a pet 
package attached.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27287

The patch to jwm was actually very small, it relies on having an 
executable in the path called jwm-speak that calls the reader with what 
is supposed to be said.

# diff -u jwm_2.0.1_jwmspeak-0.3/src/ jwm-2.0.1/src
diff -u jwm_2.0.1_jwmspeak-0.3/src/client.c jwm-2.0.1/src/client.c
--- jwm_2.0.1_jwmspeak-0.3/src/client.c 2008-03-16 22:09:20.000000000 +0000
+++ jwm-2.0.1/src/client.c      2008-03-16 22:10:19.000000000 +0000
@@ -771,20 +771,6 @@
     }

     if(activeClient != np) {
-//start of hairywill's jwm-speak stuff
-  char *str1="jwm-speak \"";
-  char *str2=np->name;
-  char *str3="\" window &";
-  char *str4;
-
-  str4 = (char *)malloc((strlen(str1) + strlen(str2) + strlen(str3) 
+1)*sizeof(char));
-  strcpy(str4, str1);
-  strcat(str4, str2);
-  strcat(str4, str3);
-  system(str4);
-  free(str4);
-
-//end of hairywill's jwm-speak stuff

        if(activeClient) {
           activeClient->state.status &= ~STAT_ACTIVE;
Only in jwm_2.0.1_jwmspeak-0.3/src/: Makefile
diff -u jwm_2.0.1_jwmspeak-0.3/src/menu.c jwm-2.0.1/src/menu.c
--- jwm_2.0.1_jwmspeak-0.3/src/menu.c   2008-03-17 10:58:57.000000000 +0000
+++ jwm-2.0.1/src/menu.c        2007-07-05 02:56:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -608,20 +608,6 @@
        if(ip->type == MENU_ITEM_SEPARATOR) {
           return;
        }
-
-//start of hairywill's jwm-speak stuff
-  char *str1="jwm-speak \"";
-  char *str2=ip->name;
-  char *str3="\" menu &";
-  char *str4;
-
-  str4 = (char *)malloc((strlen(str1) + strlen(str2) + strlen(str3) 
+1)*sizeof(char));
-  strcpy(str4, str1);
-  strcat(str4, str2);
-  strcat(str4, str3);
-  system(str4);
-  free(str4);
-//end of hairywill's jwm-speak stuff

        ResetButton(&button, menu->window, rootGC);
        button.type = BUTTON_MENU_ACTIVE;

see how it goes
Will