Hi Kevin, If you speak it when something else posts new content to the clipboard, no, there's no event I know of which you could use.
You could pole the clipboard with a timer, once a second for instance, and if it's text compare it to the last contents you spoke, and if it's different then try to figure out if it's a file name (test for existence of the file?), and if so speak it; but it seems quite a bit to do to get it to speak the file name. BTW, if the person is interested they could just use a hotkey to speak the clipboard, which reminds me there is an app named sayClip I remember seeing which does do that I think? Chip > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Huber [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 1:40 PM > To: gw-scripting > Subject: Speaking contents of the clipboard > > Hi: > I am in the process of writing a script which has three > hotkeys. One will copy text from the clipboard and speak the > contents of the clipboard, another will cut text to a > clipboard and read the contents of the clipboard, and still > another will paste text from the clipboard and announce the > contents of the clipboard. > My question is, if I am copying filenames to the clipboard, > is there a way to get Window-eyes to speak the contents of > the clipboard, similar to the line: > "speak clipboard.text", which speaks the contents of the > clipboard when the clipboard contains text. > Kevin Huber >
