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>
> I'm trying to make the transition between Dragon dictate
> and NaturallySpeaking by writing lots of new macros. I was
> starting with the old "bring up" command. I need to know
> how to find the names of applications for example "WinFile"
> is the windows file manager.I thought it was just the name of
> the executable file, but I can't make some of the executables
> get recognised. For example the programmer's file editor has
> an executable name "PFE32" which is not recognised. (It works
> okay if the program is already open, and minimised, but not if
> the program is not already running (and, no, it's not a 16 bit
> application)).
> And how do you cope with the fact that both the background
> thing in NT (and 95 I guess) and the new version of file manager
> are called Explorer? SO that if you say "bring up Explorer"
> Nat thinks you just mean the background thing.
> I got around it with Dragon dictate
> by calling the file managing thing "explore disk" on my
> start menu and saying "bring up explore disk " which then pointed
> at the Explorer exe.
> Yours with much head scratching
> Jenny
> -------------------------------------------------
> Dr Jenny Woods
> Energy Research Unit
> Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
> Chilton, Didcot, OXON, OX11 0QX
>
When you say that the executable is not recognized, do you mean that
NaturallySpeaking is not recognizing "switch to what ever" when you say
it, or that NaturallySpeaking case you an error that says the file is
not found, after correctly recognizing what you said?
If you mean the latter, there are several possible problems:
1. You have given only the name of the executable file, rather than a
complete path (e.g. FISH.EXE instead of C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\FISH.EXE),
and the executable file is not located in the path where dragon is
looking for it. NaturallySpeaking will look in any of the directories
in the PATH environment variable, which is set by the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
when Windows starts up (At least in Windows 95 -- I don't know about
Windows NT). It will also look in the NatSpeak\program directory. You
can fix this problem by specifying the full path in the second argument
to AppBringUp, or by adding the appropriate directory to your path and
rebooting.
2. Occasionally, the executable used to start a program is
not the same one which remains active. In that case, to bring up the
application from scratch, you need the name used start the program.
3. The AppBringUp command in NaturallySpeaking does not recognize long
filenames, so you need to use 8.3 names for the executable, as well as
any directories in the path.
If you do not know the name of the executable or of its path, there are
several ways to find it. If you have a shortcut to it, either on the
desktop or in the start menu, then right clicking and selecting
properties, and going to shortcut tab, you will see the executable with
its path listed in the target field. Otherwise, if you know the
executable name, but not the fall path, you can use find files or
folders in the start menu to search for it.
Have you tried bringing up Explorer? I didn't have any problem with it
in Windows 95, but I don't have NT, so I can try it there. If you do
have a problem, you might try using a different name as the first
argument to AppBringUp but leaving EXPLORER.EXE as the second argument.
David Fox
davidfox@@fas.harvard.edu
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~dcfox/index.html
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This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to
reveal your proper name (which is wise), and don't want to infuriate
them by a flat refusal (which is also very wise). No dragon can resist
the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to
understand it.
--- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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