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<DIV><FONT size=2>What I wish I could do with Chuck, or any language really, is
to have a system like I imagine PureData to be. From what I've heard, gui DSP
languages can allow you to create software synthesizers, samplers, and other
similar software, complete with gui control. You can do the DSP in chuck,
but being able to create a standalone thing that can be easily tweaked or
whatever via gui would require lots of reinventing of the
wheel.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think sighted people have a whole
host of sound making technology at their fingertips. If they want to program
everything from the ground up, they can use chuck and OSC and write a gui to
control what they build in Chuck. Seems like there are other people, like me,
who do not want to program all the dsp stuff; I'd just like to have
software in which I can </FONT> <FONT size=2>load up my synth or effect or
sampler and build weird sounds via gui in real time. Sighted people can do
this with lots of programs; just look at all the synthesizers that now come with
protools, or Cakewalk's Sonar. Some of these have been made somewhat
accessible via screen reader specific scripts, but I've not seen anything even
remotely accessible off the shelf.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Sorry for rambling, but it seems all the pieces are there.
Just need someone a lot smarter than me to put them together...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>-- Rich</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rdpoor@gmail.com href="mailto:rdpoor@gmail.com">Robert Poor</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [chuck-users] blind
user</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>For ChucK , I've always used emacs as my editor and a terminal
window for performance. I'm curious: why do people use MiniAudicle?
And for our blind community, what do you wish it would do that a
straight text editor and terminal window doesn't do?
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<DIV>- Rob</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:39, Rich Caloggero <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:rjc@mit.edu">rjc@mit.edu</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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class=gmail_quote>I am a blind user who has played around with chuck! Chuck
is perfectly accessible via command shell in either linux or windows. The
language is great and running programs is simple.<BR><BR>The GUI
environment, mini audical, is another matter. I was not able to use it on
Windows; have not tried on Mac or Linux.<BR><BR>I wonder if a rewrite in
java using Swing UI classes would be feassible. This would probably give the
most access, cross platform and with little extra coding. You do need to use
Swing though, otherwise the code to talk with MSAA (microsoft Active
Accessibility) will need to be written by hand, which is probably a big
pain!<BR><BR>Write me off list at <A href="mailto:rjc@mit.edu"
target=_blank>rjc@mit.edu</A><BR>-- Rich<BR><BR>----- Original Message -----
From: <<A href="mailto:tempjayren@gmail.com"
target=_blank>tempjayren@gmail.com</A>><BR>To: "chuck users" <<A
href="mailto:chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu"
target=_blank>chuck-users@lists.cs.princeton.edu</A>><BR>Sent: Wednesday,
September 01, 2010 5:32 AM<BR>Subject: [chuck-users] blind user
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class=gmail_quote> Would like to know if there are any other blind
users of chuck besides myself and perhaps talk to them offlist so as to
not spam the list
needlessly.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>chuck-users
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