keydown weirdness

[Thomas McGrath III]

Paul,

That just might work. Then if I interrupt I can just delete my own queue. I will look into it. 

Funniest thing typing backwards like that….


-- Tom McGrath III
http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
mcgrath3 at mac.com

On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:27 PM, Paul Hibbert <lc at pbh.on-rev.com> wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> I found it did type backwards if I keyed too quick, but if you change the keyDown to keyUp, it types forward. Leaving "with messages" in allows it to interrupt the message queue, the downside is that it doesn't speak all chars/words.
> 
> The only way I can think of to get round this would be to create a custom message queue, maybe adding the chars/words to a container then deleting them as they are spoken, stop speaking when the container is empty. - Just thinking out loud on that though, haven't tried it.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 2013-02-26, at 9:12 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
> 
>> Paul,
>> 
>> Thanks for the reply. So, did it type backwards for you too when you tried it?
>> 
>> My problem and why I put the 'with messages' in was to allow to interrupt long messages while speaking.
>> revSpeak will terminate any existing queue once a new revSpeak is issued but I can't get a new revSpeak to execute while revSpeak is speaking? a catch 22 - so after I put in the 'with messages' I was able to interrupt between queues.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> 
>> Tom
>> -- Tom McGrath III
>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>> 
>> On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Paul Hibbert <lc at pbh.on-rev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Tom,
>>> 
>>> If you remove the "with messages" from the wait statement it works fine - for me at least!
>>> 
>>> I think that’s what is screwing up the message queue.
>>> 
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> On 2013-02-26, at 8:38 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Has anyone ever experienced this type of weirdness with keyDown trapping?
>>>> 
>>>> I have this script in a substack of my main stack that should speak all characters typed into this field:
>>>> 
>>>> on keyDown pKey
>>>>  if charToNum(pKey) = 32 then
>>>>       TASpeak "Space."
>>>>       TASpeak field "SignIn" of this stack
>>>>  else
>>>>       TASpeak pKey
>>>>  end if
>>>>     pass keyDown
>>>> end keyDown
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Later in a separate main stack:
>>>> 
>>>> on TASpeak pTextToSpeak
>>>>  if gNoSpeech then
>>>>       -- speech mode off
>>>>  else
>>>>       -- process Rate, Pitch etc.
>>>>       revSpeak pTextToSpeak
>>>>       wait until revIsSpeaking() is false with messages
>>>>  end if
>>>> end TASpeak
>>>> 
>>>> Now, If I type "Tom M" into the field slowly I get: Tom M 
>>>> and it speaks each char 
>>>> and then on entering a space it speaks the whole field
>>>> 
>>>> BUT, (here's the weirdness) If I type very fast I get: M moT
>>>> and it speaks it in that order
>>>> 
>>>> This is just absolutely weird. Has anyone else seen this?
>>>> 
>>>> Tom
>>>> 
>>>> -- Tom McGrath III
>>>> http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
>>>> mcgrath3 at mac.com
>>>> 
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