[ot] Windows programming

[Kerry Hoath]

I'm sure your solution would be more complete however note that vmware can 
emulate a serial port that can be connected to a named pipe. This might 
illiminate a layer of complexity or add one.
Sorry that isn't much help but it's something to think on.
Regards, Kerry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shane" <shane-keyword-speakup.aca783 at cm.nu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 3:31 AM
Subject: [ot] Windows programming


> Hey all,
>
> I have a Windows app I'd like to have a go at writing.
> Some here may be interested as well.  It'd use the com0com
> project:
> http://com0com.sourceforge.net/
>
> to emulate an accent SA or dectalk and pass the input of
> the serial port to sapi, basically enable softspeech via a
> virtual serial port.  This could be assigned to vmware and
> Speakup would be able to use it as a hardware synth.
> Basically I want a self-contained laptop without having to
> hall around the Accent SA.
>
> Problem is, I'm used to programming under Linux where such
> an emulator would be trivial.  Open a /dev/ttySx device,
> poll it, translate the input and call the speech functions.
> I'm just wondering what the simplest api to use under
> Windows would be for a Linux programmer without too much of
> a learning curve.  I've looked at mfc and Windows c++ code
> and it looks like nothing I've ever encountered.  I'm
> thinking a system like cygwin or minw32 would work but how
> complete is their emulation of serial ports (termios etc.)
> select/poll and do these unix like systems support the
> SAPI.
>
> Shane
>
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