Re: [NTLK] Dashboard Macintalk Script

From: peter fraser (newtmanapple_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 16:22:14 EST


well, i tried this variant as well, with the same
result - dashboard says it can't compile it.

i guess i need a dashboard tutorial. would anyone
care to give me a kindergarten-level step by step
guide on how to make this work?

sorry to be such a doofus.

--- Stephanie Maks <newton_at_maksystems.com> wrote:
>
> I made some changes to the script before I used
> it... it was the PlaySound
> command that I couldn't remember. Anyhow here's the
> script I successfully
> used:
>
> // use fred or ralf or gnws or zarv etc.
> // to select which voice to speak in
> local t := GetHilitedTextItem();
> local vox := "[[svox kath]]"; // changes voice to
> Kathy
> if not(t=nil) then begin
> foreach item in t do
> PlaySound(vox&item);
> end;
>
> -Stephanie
>
> > ok, so i've got Dashboard, but have never messed
> with
> > scripting. i typed in the text exactly as shown,
> with
> > the capitalizations fixed and with a semicolon
> after
> > each line - and get an error. what am i doing
> wrong?
>
>
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