LO in dedicated accessibility task.

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#1

This is a bit of a repost because someone forwarded part of my query from the accessibility list to this list.

I'm using LO writer because it works with naturally speaking with full select and say capability

Frequently I find myself needing to record notes or job task entries or something of that nature and given that my hands are not in wonderful shape, it is really painful to do all the mousing, switching context then positioning the cursor to start recording a note. I really need to just say something like "log task entry" and have it start up in the log file  according to some internal logic defined in my speech command

What I say to invoke the editor isn't really important. It usually calculate the filename based on the context such as time of day, and task . What's important is that I find a way to achieve the following behavior:

1. There is at most one instance of file open in the editor at a time

2. If there is no instances of the file open, open one

3. When switching window context to the open editor window for a given file, position the cursor at the end of the file

4. Autosave dictated data so that no need for recovery is necessary when we started the other after shutdown

what I'm having the most trouble with is maintaining a single instance of the open file. I don't know how to tell if LO is open  or if it can tell if it has already opened the the file and simply switch to it for focus.

The second problem is the autosave without needing to do a recovery. What I would like is the ability to trigger a save command automatically whenever LO loses focus or a timeout happens.

Any pointers?

Thanks.

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
The off-list post below suggests that it's either Win7 or Win8. My
guess is Win7.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
My guess is that it depends on the OS and that you are probably
talking about Windows, either Xp or Win7. People using other than Xp
or Win7 usually tell us what they are using and that sometimes helps
us a bit.

sorry, I forget that the not-yet-disabled don't know that windows 7 +8 are the only platforms with good enough speech recognition (i.e. naturally speaking). in this case, Windows 7

Gnu & Linux is usually highly configurable so it might be possible to
set-up some script to do the auto-saving but that is more likely to
need the skills of the devs. I think they have an "i r c " channel or
something? Would that be useful or painful? There are probably other
ways to contact them.

I wish Stuart was around! He was brilliant with these issues! There
are other people here that might well be able to help too.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

heck, I'm willing to pay for help if I can get it working