DLL?

[SLotman]

Can Cerberus somehow interface with DLLs? I remembered I wrote ages ago a lib to deal with XInput on Blitz3D, and I'm thinking on porting it to Cerberus/Monkey. Would be nice to have vibration enabled

 

[SLotman]

Oh, nevermind. There is a module by regal that does exactly that

 

[MikeHart]

Oh, nevermind. There is a module by regal that does exactly that

Link?

 

[MikeHart]

Found it

Regal-Internet-Brothers/xinput

An XInput wrapper for the Monkey programming language. - Regal-Internet-Brothers/xinput

github.com

 

[SLotman]

Whoa, you did better than I

I actually had it saved here on my computer, and was (unsuccessfully) looking for it on Google

 

[SLotman]

Question: not only that, I've got "text to speech" working on Windows. But have anyone worked with the screen 'narrator'?
I can't even find anything online, if there is an API or something...

So far I could only see this, which doesn't help at all

(maybe there isn't an API? It necessarily needs a 'readable' element?)

 

[MikeHart]

I think a text to speech functionality is what you need. You know the text, feeding it to that Api shoukd be easy.

 

[SLotman]

Yeah, I've got SAPI (Microsoft's Speech API) working. I'd prefer the Narrator though - although it uses the same voice, its something totally different (it can read texts word by word or even letter by letter, and much more. It even can control where the 'focus' is with gestures and/or keys)

But since I found nothing (only how to create programs using labels and etc), I'm going for now with the SAPI indeed. But then, something else jumped on me: I thought to read the configs from Narrator (pitch and rate of the voice) and apply it on SAPI to mimic the narrator voice.

I can read it just fine in the registry, but applying the settings on SAPI doesn't quite behave the same way. I've made a post on StackOverflow about it, let's see if I get some cool answer there to solve this one

 

[SLotman]

BTW, this is what I'm doing

Sorry the final text spoken is in Brazilian Portuguese, but I think you guys can understand the gameplay. The screen goes darker by the second, and after a while you'll see nothing - still having to avoid the monsters just by using your ears (and feeling joystick vibrations if you're using one capable of)

 

[SLotman]

Dang it. Spent half the day trying to "list" all available voices on SAPI just to see that only a part of the voices available in the Narrator are present in the SAPI.

So, as much as I try, I can never replicate the narrator voice

 

[MikeHart]

I think there is no api for the narrator

Using Narrator dev mode – Tink

tink.uk

 

[SLotman]

Nope - that is just to help identify "objects that are accessible to Narrator" (which means buttons, labels, text boxes, etc)
Those "commands" mentioned in the article are just a bunch of key combos that activates special features, like highlighting the current Narrator focus, for example.

To be able to use the "Narrator" AFAIK, you need to use standard controls. Using OpenGL/Direct-X and images won't work, at all :/

 

[MikeHart]

I agree