I wonder what kind of programming is required to learn how to make JAWS and NVDA scrypts? because that's something I'm thinking I might want to get into if its not overly complicated. #Blind
JAWS scripting language is a proprietary thing. I learned it early on to make JAWS work with a bunch of 16 bit computer games and the cheap word processor my school paid for.
NVDA uses Python: widely portable and applicable to thousands of other projects. I think there's probably more of a learning curve to that, you can build on a bunch of preexisting JAWS scripts. But then if you go at python without the preconceived notions of JAWS, you might just as easily pick that up quickly too.
@cachondo No you wouldn't. Look at that JAWS scripting manual link. You can make JAWS say strings, type stuff for you. Without even knowing about loops or if statemtns. I would start there. NVDA is definitely a bit more involved, but still doable.
@mcourcel @cachondo oh, you can entirely fry a computer. I took JAWS scripting some time ago, and there was a way that if you changed something in the default file, and every time any key was pressed it repeated the same word over and over.
@luv4music1231 @mcourcel wouldn't fry the computer, though. JAWS has an emergency exit key so you could eventually stop it even with JAWS active. yes, you could write a script that crashed the system, but you can always boot without JAWS. A dangerous script could potentially corrupt your Windows installation, but it'd have to be pretty impressive to ruin the hardware.
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in reply to Nick's world • • •JAWS scripting language is a proprietary thing. I learned it early on to make JAWS work with a bunch of 16 bit computer games and the cheap word processor my school paid for.
NVDA uses Python: widely portable and applicable to thousands of other projects.
I think there's probably more of a learning curve to that, you can build on a bunch of preexisting JAWS scripts. But then if you go at python without the preconceived notions of JAWS, you might just as easily pick that up quickly too.
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in reply to Mendi • • •yes, you could write a script that crashed the system, but you can always boot without JAWS.
A dangerous script could potentially corrupt your Windows installation, but it'd have to be pretty impressive to ruin the hardware.