[Blindtlk] Window-Eyes 7.01 Is Now Available!]

[Raul A. Gallegos]

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Subject: 	Window-Eyes 7.01 Is Now Available!
Date: 	Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:08:30 -0400
From: 	gw-news at gwmicro.com
Reply-To: 	aaron at gwmicro.com
To: 	gw-news at gwmicro.com



GW Micro is proud to announce the official release of Window-Eyes 7.01.

Thanks to customer feedback and the tireless efforts of the Window-Eyes
Error Reporting feature (and those who choose to send in error reports)
Window-Eyes 7.01 boasts more stability, reliability, and performance
than ever before.

Window-Eyes scripting is changing the accessible landscape of computers,
and the increased stability that Window-Eyes 7.01 provides means being
able to spend more time focusing on script development. Window-Eyes 7.01
also resolves several issues that affected localized versions of
Window-Eyes, and has increased Window-Eyes marketability across the globe.

While Window-Eyes 7.01 is a minor upgrade, it packs a significant punch
including a few new features along with several bug fixes. A complete
list of all changes is included below.

Window-Eyes 7.01 is a FREE upgrade to Window-Eyes 7.0 users. To install
Window-Eyes 7.01, you must already have a working copy of Window-Eyes
7.0 installed (Retail, Demo, Evaluation, Dongle, Everlock, and
LTO/Payment Plan versions are all supported). To download the upgrade,
select the "Window-Eyes Update" option from the Window-Eyes Help menu,
or navigate directly to www.gwmicro.com/upgrade </upgrade>, and enter
your serial number manually.

If you have any questions or comments please contact us at
support at gwmicro.com <mailto:support at gwmicro.com>, or via phone at
260-489-3671.

Enjoy!


    Enhancements between Window-Eyes 7.01 and Window-Eyes 7.0

We have resolved several memory leaks, and fixed several stability
issues thanks to the Window-Eyes error reporting feature. Window-Eyes
7.01 is a significant improvement over Window-Eyes 7.0 in terms of
stability and responsiveness.

We fixed a problem where Window-Eyes could hang while leaving and
entering Browse mode quickly.

We fixed a problem where list boxes were not reading correctly in Visual
Studio 2005/2008.

We fixed a a problem where Browse Mode would not refresh when a link was
activated in Firefox 3.

Many upper Unicode characters (most above 7fh) were not getting
translated correctly in English grade 2 braille. This problem has been
resolved.

If the user profile path contained Unicode characters that didn't map
into ANSI, you were not able to install script package files. This
problem has been resolved.

Window-Eyes would only read part of words with upper Unicode characters
in PowerPoint 2003.  This problem has been resolved.

Added the WEUpdate script to the factory default scripts.  This script
will automatically check for Window-Eyes updates and let you know if
there is an update available.


        iTunes

We resolved several issues relating to iTunes, including support for
using the Window-Eyes Find command while in the iTunes store, resolving
the issue of not being able to activate links using the Insert-Tab
dialog, resolving the double reading in listviews and treeviews,
speaking expanded and collapsed when you open and close tree view nodes,
speaking the pull down menus correctly under Windows Vista, and
resolving a problem where set files could not be associated to the
iTunes window (or any window whose title was null). In addition,
Window-Eyes does not automatically enable Browse Mode when the iTunes
Store option is selected, meaning you can successfully arrow through all
of the main items without suddenly getting tossed into Browse Mode.


        Scripting

If Window-Eyes is localized in a language that a script was not
localized in, the hotkeys won't work because they're not localized to
the Window-Eyes language. To resolve this issue, we have added a new
property to the Key object called UntranslatedName. From now on, our
policy is to hard code default hotkey names in your script, always in
English, even if you are writing the script in another language, because
Window-Eyes will always be able to interrupt English hotkey names. They
can still be displayed to the user in the script language, but they
should be stored in INI files, and in scripts as English. This way no
matter what language Window-Eyes is localized in, or what languages the
script you are trying to use is localized in, the hotkeys will always
work. Once again, default hotkey names should not exist in the XML
resource, because they should never be localized. Keyboard.Key will
accept both Key.Name and Key.Unstranslated name. Refer to the
documentation for more information.

Added Mouse.ButtonDownEx and Mouse.ClickEx methods. Both methods provide
the ability to enhance their respective functions with key modifiers. In
addition, ClickEx fixes a problem of interrupting speech after
performing the mouse click.

If a null string was returned through various Speech event handlers,
speech would get disabled. This was mainly a problem with Visual Basic
which would return null for speech events that weren?t specifically
hooked.  This problem has been resolved.

The scripting error dialog would sometimes pass a blank string for the
error description. Now, if Window-Eyes cannot retrieve the error
description, a default message will be used rather than displaying a
blank string.

You can now use language id strings in the XML resource, such as "en" or
"en-us" instead of having to use a hexadecimal number.

If was possible for a script to not successfully restart, but you would
still hear the restart message. This problem has been resolved.

We fixed a problem where scripts could error when invoking
Keyboard.Registerhotkey on launch.

We fixed a problem where you couldn't Control or Shift-Click using the
keyboard (meaning you couldn't tap the Control key and then press the
Left Mouse button hotkey to perform a left click).

We fixed a version comparison problem when installing script package files.

Window-Eyes now ensures that any read only attributes on script files
being installing, uninstall, or used when created packages are cleared.
This resolved a problem of script files not getting installed, or
removed correctly.

The Window-Eyes Scripting Manual has been updated.

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-- 
Raul A. Gallegos -- http://www.asmodean.net