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Hi. As listviews on the latest purebasic no longer work with VoiceOver, which breaks the accessibility of my programs. I sort of have a workaround by grabbing the text of the current item in the listview with the gadget change event and speaking it out with TTS. but this is not very good for my user...

HI

I am looking for a starting point to use the built in OCR function in windows 10.

any ideas, or starting point would be helpful

thank you.

M

ok. i'll try to explain again.

The application i launch using 'RunProgram' does actually start in the background. but the problem is, the launched application immediately closes, as if the OS is shutting it down for some reason.

works fine when launched from finder.

it's not just TextEdit. Seems most apps start.
then immediately close.

Hi Woldram. Thank you for your response. I've already tried both of those. but no joy. the example I posted, was the last one I tried in my code. as I said previously, it works Pre 'Big Sur'. On 'Big Sur', the TextEdit app does open, but then immediately closes. I get the same result with other apps...

Previous OS was Catalina. That just worked fine.
It's not just 'TextEdit' that opens and then immediately closes. using 'RunProgram' with other apps does the same thing.

Martin.

Hi After updating to Big Sur on Mac. I am finding that my app which used to open 'TextEdit' with the following line no longer works. RunProgram(GetUserDirectory(#PB_Directory_Programs)+"TextEdit.app","","") it appears to open 'textedit' briefly, then immediately closes ...

Hi, I just tried the first example posted here.
I do get speech output. but I can't seem to set the output audio device. which ever audio device i select in the example. it still sends the speech output to the default windows output device.

any help please.

Martin

HI,

As I have used purebasic on windows with a screen reader, which works reasonably well. I have now tried it on MacOS, and I get no speech feedback from Voiceover. am I missing something?, or is it not usable on MacOS with the screen reader.

thanks

M

Hi, When I use RunProgram on OSX, the program that is launched always has background focus. On Windows Launched applications seem to always get foreground / active focus. So on OSX, Is there a way to give an application foreground / active focus when I use RunProgram. or is there a way to give an ap...

Ah. I was close lol.

Thank you Wilbert. Your help is much appreciated.

Martin.

Hi. I am currently porting a program to mac osx. so i'm new to cocoamessage etc. I am using some speech output. I have most things working well, but how do you get and set the speech rate in NSSpeechSynthsizer I have managed to change and get available voices etc. but I can't seem to figure out how ...