Lindows preview.

[Gregory Nowak]

Would window-eyes work?
Greg


On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 05:08:30AM -0000, Saqib Shaikh wrote:
> I personally consider it unlikely that JFW will work under Wine/Lindows.
> This is largely because JFW does some rather, erm shall we say naughty,
> things to get information from the screen.  Furthermore not sure that MSAA
> would work.  However I am hopeful that Hal from Dolphin would work.  This is
> because Hal follows all the rules far more stringently, and so if Wine can
> just capture all GDI system calls and translate them into Linux terms
> there's no reason why it won't work.
> 
> Saqib
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Ward" <tward at bright.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Lindows preview.
> 
> 
> > However, as long as you put thedependent dll files somewhere your screen
> > reader can find them it might work.
> > I had a problem some months back with a copy of JFW, and I managed to
> badger
> > Freedom Scientific into giving me the name of the dependancy dll files so
> I
> > didn't have to upgrade Internet Explorer everytime they got a whim to
> > update.
> > So there is a chance, although slim, that wine could support a screen
> > reader.
> >
> >
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jason" <unleet at qwest.net>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: Lindows preview.
> >
> >
> > > OK, here's the deal on "lindows"
> > > It uses "Wine", a "Windows compatability layer" for linux. Wine requires
> > X.
> > > My best guess is that JAWS for windows won't run under Wine. I don't
> have
> > a
> > > copy to test with myself, but knowing what I do about the way Wine
> > seperates
> > > programs from each other quite a bit more than Windows does I doubt the
> > > needed "common ground" that JAWS depends on would be present.
> > >
> > > Oh yeah, as an aside, the version of Wine that lindows will ship with is
> > > modified slightly; it contains significantly better support for DirectX
> > and
> > > OpenGL than the regular version of Wine.
> > >
> > > On a completely unrelated note, it could be possible to write a version
> of
> > > Wine that doesn't use X and simply dumps text to a console for speakup,
> or
> > > whatever else, to read. No, I'm not volunteering for that project :-P
> > > But if anytone happens to want to start a project to hack X and the
> > relevent
> > > toolkit libraries into accessible submission, I'll join, I've even got
> the
> > > beginnings of a structure worked out for all of it.
> > >
> > > (hmmm.... this e-mail got a lot longer than I intended)
> > >
> > > On Tuesday November 27, 2001 02:35 am, you wrote:
> > > > the same question occurred to me too.
> > > > but it also occurred to me that if lindows is able to run both linux
> and
> > > > windows programs as suggested, would you not be able to run your
> > > > existing windows screen reader as well as speakup?
> > > > of course not at the same time <evil grin>
> > > > I thought that the idea of lindows was to have a thin translation
> layer
> > > > for interpreting windows stuff.
> > > > at least that's what I remember from what I've seen about it anyway.
> > > > On
> > >
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