December 13, 1996 
Window-Eyes version 1.1

GW Micro, Inc.
725 Airport North Office Park 
Fort Wayne, IN  46825  USA
voice: (219)489-3671
  fax: (219)489-2608
  BBS: (219)489-5281
E-mail: support@gwmicro.com

Changes from version 1.01 to 1.1 are listed at the end of this
README.  You can jump quickly to the next section by searching
for *** (three asterisks in a row).

Thank you for your evaluation of Window-Eyes 1.1.  This
demonstration version of Window-Eyes contains all the features of
the actual production version.  However, after 30 minutes, Window-
Eyes will give a message every 15 seconds.  Your machine will not
lock up, but after 35 minutes Window-Eyes will no longer read
information as it did.  If you remove Window-Eyes from memory, you
will have to leave Windows and restart it in order to rerun Window-
Eyes.

THE MANUAL

For your convenience, the entire manual has been supplied on disk. 
With version 1.1, changes have been made in the electronic version
of the manual which have not yet been made in the print and tape
versions.  Therefore, the disk version is the most up-to-date
version.  Each section can be found in its own standard ASCII text
file.  The following files constitute the entire manual:

WARRANTY.TXT
TOC.TXT
SECT1.TXT
SECT2.TXT
SECT3.TXT
SECT4.TXT
SECT5.TXT
SECT6.TXT
SECT7.TXT
SECT8.TXT
SECT9.TXT
SECT10.TXT
SECT11.TXT
SECT12.TXT
SECT13.TXT
SECT14.TXT
SECT15.TXT
SECT16.TXT
SECT17.TXT
SECT18.TXT
SECT19.TXT
APPEN-A.TXT
APPEN-B.TXT
APPEN-C.TXT
APPEN-D.TXT
APPEN-E.TXT
APPEN-F.TXT

If you would like a Braille manual, contact PC Place in
Sacramento,  California, USA for prices and shipping information. 
Their phone number is (916) 481-1777.

*** Things you should know about Window-Eyes 1.1 as of December 13,
1996:

Specific Applications

In MS Word and WordPerfect, underlined text is read but not
identified as underlined.

Miscellaneous

A few color schemes do not work fully.  Those which work
particularly well are:  Windows Default, Bordeaux, Cinnamon,
Designer, Fluorescent, Hot Dog Stand, LCD Default Screen settings,
LCD Reversed - Dark, Mahogany, Monochrome, Rugby, The Blues, and
Wingtips.

If you attempt to exit Windows while a DOS box is open, Windows may
lock up.  Close the DOS session before exiting Windows.

QEMM 8.0 users should not use Resource Manager as there is a
conflict between it and many applications, including Window-Eyes.

The read forward and backward sentence and paragraph functions
are not functioning correctly at this time.

The marked text feature currently does not work in edit boxes.

We are working to correct the above problems and hope to have a
free release soon.  If you have a modem, you might like to download
the corrections from our BBS for faster service.  In order to
receive updates, be sure to send in your registration card.

The changes for Window-Eyes 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, and 1.1 have been
listed separately since many users did not install previous
upgrades or did not read the original README.

*** Changes from Window-Eyes 1.01 to 1.02:

word mode is much faster

typing is faster

The "Read Active Window" hot key and reading windows start speaking
much faster.

Printing speed is improved.

Screen redraws have been eliminated.  Applications that required
redraws such as file manager should start much quicker.

A text shifting problem in the OSM has been fixed.  This caused
problems with Works, Take Command, Duxbury, Help and several other
applications.

The caret tracks much better in a number of applications.  If the
caret is not tracking for you, you can press the "Auto Detect
Caret" hot key to cause Window-Eyes to determine the caret.  The
value of the caret is stored in the .we file so you do not have to
have a set associated with the application for this feature to
work.

We have worked around a bug in many HP Deskjet drivers that caused
a General Protection Fault.

MS Word dialog boxes have been greatly sped up

Pressing the route caret hot key (numpad-plus by default) could
cause Window-Eyes to go into an infinite loop.  This has been
fixed.

The route caret hot key is much faster.

The find dialog now remembers the last string that you searched
for.

The search and continue search hot keys are faster.

The menu bar hot key didn't work if the border setting in Desktop
under Control Panel was too wide.  This is fixed.

We fixed a bug that seemed to only cause blow-ups when the standard
VGA driver was used.  These blowups were with Netscape, Compton's
encyclopedia, Access, Quicken, and other applications.

When you pressed enter to exit the find dialog Window-Eyes would
read activated and focused messages.  We have addressed this issue,
but it still needs more work.

Memory allocation was improved which should make WE more stable and
should prevent Windows from running out of selectors (memory
handles) which would prevent programs including Window-Eyes from
allocating memory.

We fixed a blow-up that occurred if you used the find dialog while
you were in a menu.

We changed the Sounding Board software to report how much text is
in its buffer which allows WE to be more responsive with the
Sounding Board.  This is version 2.7.  Be sure to copy SBLOAD.COM
and SB.COM from your Window-Eyes disk into the appropriate
directory.

TextAssist had a problem if you launched Window-Eyes from the win
command-line.  This has been corrected.

Some WordPerfect and Procomm 2.11 menus would say "separator"
instead of the menu item.  This has been corrected.

The Take Command Apps menu and TextBridge Pro menu that are added
to word processor menus didn't speak correctly.  This has been
corrected.

If you asked the light bar to be read, pressed the read-marked-
block key, or pressed any of the read window hot keys repeatedly
Window-Eyes would take a long time to process these requests.  This
has been made faster.

Some Window-Eyes dialog boxes would allow you to bring themselves
up more than once and also allow you to bring other dialog boxes up
over them.  This has been corrected.

Applications that use the system caret should work correctly.

*** Changes from Window-Eyes 1.02 to 1.03

Window-Eyes is much faster.

Portions of the manual have been rewritten and updated.  Be sure to
install the manual when installing the upgrade.

Word mode now works correctly in all situations.

In Window-Eyes 1.03, if you attempt to assign a previously-assigned
key to a hot key function Window-Eyes will announce the function to
which that key is assigned.  If you attempt a second time, Window-
Eyes will move you to that function.  Besides letting you easily
undefine features you don't use, it can be used as a quick way to
get to a function for which you know the key but not the name.

If you attempt to define a cursoring key which has previously been
assigned, Window-Eyes will move you to the key so that you can
enter a new definition if you wish.  

Ami Pro now works with Window-Eyes.

"Shifting Text" problems in Windows Help and other places have been
corrected.

A Mouse Next Attribute hot key has been added.  This key moves the
mouse  pointer to the next item matching the attributes selected in
the "Attribute Search Selection" dialog on the mouse menu.

If the mouse pointer is within the area defined by the mouse
boundary hot key, pressing the Mouse Next Attribute hot key causes
Window-Eyes to move the pointer to the next matching attribute
within the specified area.  If the pointer is already outside the
boundary, Window-Eyes begins its search at the top of the specified
area.

A Mouse Previous Attribute hot key was added.  This key moves the
mouse  pointer backwards to an item matching the attributes
selected in the "Attribute Search Selection" dialog on the mouse
menu.

If the mouse pointer is within the area defined by the mouse
boundary hot key, pressing the Mouse Previous Attribute hot key
causes Window-Eyes to move the pointer backwards to the matching
attribute within the specified area.  If the pointer is already
outside the boundary, Window-Eyes begins its search at the bottom
of the specified area.

The Search radio button in the Find Dialog has been changed to
include the following areas of the screen:

     Full Screen
     Active Window
     Focused Window
     User Window

Attributes have also been added to the Find Dialog.  The new
attribute options are:

     Underlined
     Bold
     Highlighted
     Italic    
     Strikeout

Window-Eyes' find feature previously searched only from the top
down.  You are now able to begin the search at the bottom right and
work backward.

The "Mouse Continue Search" hot key now continues its search from
the current mouse position, not from the position of the last item
which was found.  This means you can move your pointer past
material before continuing the search.  

For a complete explanation of the Find Dialog and its features, see
section 12.7 of the new Window-Eyes manual which is located in
C:\WINEYES\MANUAL by default. 

The font restriction has been removed from character dictionaries.
Previously if you wanted to define the period character to say
"stop" you had to put

arial,.=stop

into the dictionary.  This entry only worked for the arial font. 
Now you can put the entry

.=stop

which works for any font.  You can still specify a font which will
override the generic setting so the two entries below

arial,.=arial stop
.=stop

would say "arial stop" for arial periods  and "stop" for any other
periods.  See section 18.5 of the new Window-Eyes manual for
details.

A "Synthesizer Re-initialization" feature has been added to Window-
Eyes 1.03.  If your synthesizer is connected to a serial port, it
is possible for a Windows application (or any other program) to
attempt to send information to it instead of to a modem, mouse, or
other serial device.  Since the synthesizer or serial port may
react unpredictably, it is essential to have a quick, easy way to
put things to rights.  For this reason, the "initialize
Synthesizer" command can be accessed without
activating the menu.  

If your synthesizer begins to speak characters which are not
normally contained in the text it should be speaking, or if it
suddenly stops speaking altogether, or if your synthesizer, serial
or otherwise, "gets stuck" and speaks at the wrong pitch or rate, 
re-initialize it by doing the following:

     Press Control-\ to bring up the Voice Control Panel.

     Press the letter "I."

Window-Eyes will send a string of commands to your synthesizer
which includes rate, pitch, tone, and volume commands, serial port
initialization, and the original initialization string sent to the
synthesizer on startup.  Your synthesizer will announce,
"Synthesizer re-initialized."  Press Escape to leave the Voice
Control Panel if you wish.

You can also re-initialize your synthesizer by bringing down the
General menu and pressing "I," or by using the up and down arrow
keys to move to the last item in the general menu.  Once on the
Initialize Synthesizer item, press ENTER.  Window-Eyes announces,
"Synthesizer Re-initialized," and closes the menus.

The "Read Any Window" hot key now works.

Set file associations are now made when you save the set file. 
Previously Window-Eyes made the association when you opened the set
file.  We feel that this way is less confusing.

Window-Eyes no longer confuses voice settings when you save set
files.

We fixed a bug that could cause user windows and hyperactive
windows to blow up when used in combination.  This most often
occurred when a hyperactive window triggered on a contains string
such as our hyperactive window A in winhelp.000.

We changed the set file load and save dialog boxes to only include
files with a .0* extension.

You no longer need to type the extension of a dictionary in the
Open or Save As dialogs.  Window-Eyes will automatically add "CHR"
to character dictionary names, ".DIC" to exception dictionaries,
and ".KEY" to key label dictionary names.

The hot keys that read relative to the caret now beep if there is
no caret on the screen.  This includes the first 19 keys on the hot
keys menu, the forward and backward sentence and paragraph hot
keys, and the read to end hot key.

In hyperactive windows, "Contains String" is no longer case
sensitive.

New set files have been added to the list, including those for MS
Word.

*** Changes from Window-Eyes 1.03 to 1.04

The "reclass" Hot Key

This is a powerful new feature which makes several formerly barely-
usable applications quite speech friendly and greatly enhances the
usability of many others.  If a software developer uses standard
Windows controls in dialog boxes and other situations, Window-Eyes
can identify each of these and report its type.  Window-Eyes also
knows what else should be read.  For example, if you press the tab
key and move to an edit box, Window-Eyes says "Edit Box" and reads
the field name which is usually displayed to the left or above the
edit box and then reads the contents of the edit box.  When you tab
to a button, Window-Eyes says "Button and reads its label.  If the
developer creates unique controls, however, Window-Eyes does not
know what they are or what to read, so it usually says "Custom
Control" and leaves it at that.  the Reclass hot key allows you to
tell Window-Eyes to treat one of these customized control items as
a standard item.

In actual application, it works like this:  you are running a new
program and you find that an item is read as "Custom Control" or is
not read at all.  You pop up the Window-Eyes Control Panel, go to
the hot keys menu, and assign a hot key to "Reclass," say F11.

You return to your problem application and press F11.  Window-Eyes
brings up a list of all the standard controls.  If you have some
idea of what this item does, you can make an educated guess and
select an item.  For example, if the item says "Scroll up arrow,
scroll down arrow," it might be a list box or a combo box.  If it
says "OK" or "Cancel," it probably should be treated as a button. 
If you have no idea what it resembles, you can simply work your way
down the list trying each of the items until you find the one which
works the best for you.  If nothing works, you can simply choose
"Original Class" from the top of the list to return the application
to its original state.

It is not necessary to save the set file in order to keep your new
class definition.

Because Window-Eyes makes assumptions about the display of Windows
controls, it is possible to cause an item in a dialog to speak less
accurately than with its original definition.  If you move away
from the redefined item, it may sometimes be difficult to find your
way back because of the extraneous speech.  If this happens, you
may need to delete the reclass definition which is stored in the
.WE file for the window.  All reclassifications are stored in a
section labeled 

     [Reclass on Create]

Delete the relevant line to eliminate the reclassification.

Note: Since the reclassification is saved in the .WE file instead
of the set file, it is not necessary to save the set file to keep
your new definitions.

Note: Many applications use the same custom control in numerous
situations.  If you reclass one of these, Window-Eyes may not
update the classifications of the others until the application has
been closed and restarted.

Note: Standard Windows controls cannot be reclassed.

The Redraw Hot Key

Within some programs, notably Netscape and Windows Help, text
sometimes becomes scrambled within Window-Eyes internal
representation of the screen.  The Redraw Hot key can eliminate
this problem in one of two ways:

     Press the hot key when you think Window-Eyes is reading     
pieces of old screens along with material which is actually     
displayed on the screen.

     Turn redraws on by pressing the redraw hot key twice.      
Window-Eyes will redraw the screen only when it is necessary.

In Netscape and Help, redraws have been turned on.  The hot key,
for all set files, has been defined as Insert-Backslash (\) by
default. 

After the first press of the redraw hot key, the key becomes a
toggle.  This means that the first press of the key redraws the
screen, but all subsequent consecutive uses of the hot key turn
automatic redrawing on and off.  Window-Eyes announces "Redraws on"
or Redraws off" to let you know the current state.

The Graphics Dictionary

The graphics dictionary now has four settings.  

     "On" causes all graphics to be spoken.  If Window-Eyes reads
a graphic which is not in the dictionary, it simply says     
"Graphic."  

     The "off" setting causes Window-Eyes to ignore all graphics. 
This is useful in dialog boxes in which scroll symbols and     
other common icons are distracting.  

     "Dictionary only" causes Window-Eyes to read only those     
graphics which are defined in the .GRA file.  If you place the
caret or mouse pointer directly on an undefined graphic as you
might while reviewing the screen, Window-Eyes says "Graphic,"
allowing you to label the symbol.

     The "Graphic Only" setting causes Window-Eyes to treat all   
  graphics as if they were undefined.

Multi-Selection List Boxes

In Windows, some list boxes allow more than one selection to be
made at a time.  For example, you might want to select several
files for deletion.  Window-Eyes now differentiates between "List
Boxes" and "Multi-Selection List Boxes."  The read summary hot key
will read all selected items in the list which are displayed on the
screen.  

Holding Down Another Key while Using the Mouse

Shift-Click and Control-click mouse functions are now available in
Window-Eyes.  Some applications allow multiple selections to be
made by pressing the mouse button while the shift key is held down. 
Now, you can press the shift key and then follow it immediately
with the "Single Click Left Mouse Button" hot key to simulate the
clicking of the left mouse button while the shift key is held down.

The Mouse Voice

Movement of the physical mouse and the mouse hot keys now use the
mouse voice.

Turning off the mouse voice now stops movement of the physical
mouse from being spoken.  This is useful if you can see the screen
and only want to hear text by the use of hot keys.  Movement of the
mouse through the use of hot keys is still voiced.

The mouse in and mouse out verbosity settings now use the mouse
voice. These settings stop talking when the mouse voice is off.

The mouse attribute/ASCII hot key now uses the mouse voice.

Hot Keys

The Read Bar hot key now spells the contents of the light bar the
second time it is pressed.  It spells phonetically (alpha, bravo,
Charlie) the third time it is pressed.

The speak summary hot key (Alt-Shift-S) now spells the highlighted
item in a list or combo box the second time it is pressed (similar
to the read bar or read word hot keys).

The Speak Summary hot key now speaks the labels of buttons as well
as the contents of edit boxes and the highlighted item in a list or
combo box.

The Speak Summary hot key (Alt-Shift-S) now speaks the entire
contents of an edit box.  Previously, it read only the top line.

There is now a "Read Current Clip" hot key.  By default, it is
Insert-Numpad-Center for consistency with the previous and next
clip hot keys.  Since that key was previously used for double-
click, and since double-click can be accomplished by pressing the
single-click button, that hot key (Double Click left mouse button)
has been left undefined.

If you turn off the reading of certain attributes from the
verbosity menu, the mouse and caret ASCII/Attribute hot keys will
not announce those items the first time the hot key is pressed. 
The second press, however, announces all items.  This is useful
when you normally wish to know only one piece of information within
an application, such as the font size, but occasionally want to
know the font or color.

Speak Windows

In previous versions of Window-Eyes, if the status of a window was
set to "Speak," the line the caret was on would be reread as you
typed.  These lines no longer re-read.

As text comes to the screen, speak windows now read much more
smoothly.  Far less text is double-read.

Turning off the screen voice now turns off only the speech from
speak windows.  Previously, turning off the screen voice turned off
most speech.

Miscellaneous Changes

Window-Eyes is now much more responsive when asked to speak or stop
speaking.  It is also faster when text is being written to the
screen.

Window-Eyes is now more stable.

Dialog boxes which did not speak automatically or which caused
repeated speech now speak correctly.

Some non-standard buttons or buttons which used graphics as labels
instead of text did not speak correctly.  Window-Eyes now
identifies them as buttons and reads the labels.

When the insert key on the numeric keypad is used as a "shift" key,
the insert is no longer passed on to the application.  If you use
the insert key alone, however, it is passed on to the application
as usual.

We have added an exit dialog to prompt you when you exit Window-
Eyes.  This helps prevent you from inadvertently shutting down
speech.

Text-scrambling problems have been eliminated.  These problems were
especially evident in WINHELP.

The mouse ASCII/Attribute and caret ASCII/Attribute hot keys now
give the ASCII value of the character first, then the font, then
the RGB values.  Also, the rate is slowed for  the reading of the
RGB values to make them more intelligible.  The same order is
maintained for attribute changes when this feature is turned on
from the screen menu.

The Accept Mouse button in RGB dialog boxes in Window-Eyes user
window definitions now announces "mouse accepted."

The Update Snap Shot button in the hyperactive window definition
dialog now announces "Snap Shot Updated."

The Select User Window dialog and the Select Hyperactive Window
dialog both announce the window selected when you press the OK
button.

The Float Window dialog only lets you go to the edit boxes when a
value is needed.  For example, you cannot go to an edit box if the
combo box is set for beginning of light bar.

Previously, checking both "Window Title" and "Entire Window if
Dialog" in the verbosity menu would cause the title to be read
twice.  Window-Eyes now reads the title only once.

The apostrophe is now allowed in exception dictionaries.

It is no longer necessary to use the "shift" modifier before
shifted punctuation in the key label dictionary.

The character dictionary is no longer case sensitive.

Turning off the keyboard voice no longer turns off any of the
special keys from the keyboard special keys menu.

Hyperactive windows trigger correctly if they are true when a set
file loads.

In previous versions of Window-Eyes, if you moved the mouse over
certain types of static text or graphical buttons, Window-Eyes
would not read.  This has been corrected for both the physical
mouse and the mouse hot keys.

The bypass key now works correctly.

The "Restore" item on some menu bars such as those in WordPerfect
and Program Manager are now correctly spoken.

Child system menus on the menu bar are now correctly spoken.

Cursoring keys, Speak-and spell windows, and the hot keys which
spell now accurately announce capitalization.

Window-Eyes edit boxes which expect a limited number of characters
as input now prevent the typing of additional characters.

***Changes from Window-Eyes 1.04 to 1.05

Spreadsheet Support

Window-Eyes now supports Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Microsoft
Works spreadsheet and many others.  The tracking of cells in
spreadsheets is controlled through the general menu.  The option
"include box in light bar" allows you to activate this feature.  
Note:  Quatro Pro is not supported at this time.

Mouse Features

Window-Eyes has two new mouse hot keys, mouse prior control and
mouse next control.  These keys will move the mouse from it's
current position on the screen to the next Windows control and will
also set focus to that control.  This is useful for controls that
are not accessible from the keyboard, such as those controls found
in forms in Netscape.

The Route Mouse to caret hot key has been enhanced.  Now, when you
press this hot key, Window-Eyes will move the mouse pointer to the
currently focused item  and speak the name of the control it lands
on if it is unable to find a caret on the screen. So, for example,
if the mouse lands on a button, it will say "pointer routed to
button." 

A new menu option has been added to the mouse menu.  Track mouse
with focus will cause the mouse pointer to "follow" focus as you
work.  This means that the mouse will automatically be routed to
the currently focused item on the screen, such as the caret or a
light bar.  This is a toggle option and defaults to being off.

The mouse will no longer "get stuck" or move out of the boundary
set through the set mouse boundary hot key or the mouse boundary
mouse menu settings when using the mouse movement hot keys.  

Capitalization Alert

Problems associated with the "say caps" setting have been resolved.

Window-Eyes will now beep when you type a shifted letter when the
caps lock is on.

Read-to-End

Read-to-end would sometimes read to the bottom of the screen and
stop.  This problem has been corrected.  We have also corrected
problems aborting read-to-end.  Previously, when read-to-end was
aborted with the escape key, the keyboard would not respond
correctly.

Cursor Delay

Adjusts the length of time Window-Eyes waits to carry out cursoring
key commands after a cursoring key has been pressed.  This option
may be found on the general menu.  The range of values it will
accept are 1 to 99, with 1 being the least amount of delay and 99
being the largest. Here's an example of how you might use this
feature.

Some application programs run so slowly that Window-Eyes hands off
a cursoring key keystroke and then speaks before the application
program has a chance to carry out the cursor-movement or whatever
command.  For example, let's say you have set Ctrl-UP to
"paragraph."  Your application program uses this key to move the
application cursor to the previous paragraph.  Ideally, the process
goes like this: you press Ctrl-UP; Window-Eyes hands off the
keystroke to the application program; the application program
executes the command, moving the application cursor to the first
word of the previous paragraph, and Window-Eyes reads the
paragraph.

If, however, cursor delay is set to a value too low for the
application program, the program doesn't have enough time to move
the cursor before Window-Eyes starts reading.  Consequently, you
hear the paragraph where the cursor was when you pressed the Ctrl-
UP key, not where the application would send it.  If you experience
this kind of problem with all or some of your cursoring keys,
experiment with increasing the value of cursor delay in small
increments until you find the one that works best.

Trigger Delay

Adjusts the length of time Window-Eyes buffers text before it is
passed on to the synthesizer.  If you experience "stuttering" or
the first part of a line being repeated, try setting this value to
a higher number.  This option is found on the general menu.  The
range of values Window-Eyes will accept is 1 to 99, 1 being the
least amount of delay and 99 being the most delay.  Each sequential
value increases the delay by 50 milliseconds, so if you choose a
value of 10, for example, your delay would be 500 milliseconds or
one half of a second.  This feature is only useful for speak
windows and speak all.

Miscellaneous 

Window-Eyes will now speak the focused item followed by the
activated window.  

A new option, current index, has been added to the verbosity
dialog.  This option, when checked, will cause window-Eyes to speak
the currently highlighted item in a list box and it's index number. 
For example, if you were in the hot keys dialog, and you were on
sentence, Window-Eyes might say something like "sentence,
Control+S, index 11 of 132."

Window-Eyes will now beep if it is unable to find any marked text
or a light bar when the read marked block or read light bar hot
keys are pressed.

The control key now silences speak windows until no more text
appears.  Window-Eyes will then ding to let you know that no more
text is being drawn to the screen.  Speech will resume on the
second press of the control key. 

There is now a speak all hot key.  This hot key causes Window-Eyes
to speak all newly written text within the active application to be
spoken.  This hot key is undefined by default.

A new cursoring key, marked text, has been added to the cursoring
keys dialog.  When a cursoring key is defined in this way, Window-
Eyes will alert you to what text has been selected by saying the
character or word followed by the words "selected" or "unselected."

Note: this feature does not yet work in edit boxes or AMI PRO.

A new cursoring key, mouse top left, has been added to the
cursoring key dialog.  This cursoring key works exactly as the
mouse top left hot key does, but does not say "top left."

The reclass dialog has been enhanced.  It now displays the
original class at the bottom.  You may tab to this control to hear
the original class of the control you are trying to reclass.

Window-Eyes will now always use redraws.  The problems that
prevented speak windows from working with redraws have been
eliminated.  The redraw hot key is still present, however.

Auto-determine light bar color has been added to the user
definition dialog.  This option causes Window-Eyes to try to
automatically determine the light bar color when you ask for the
light bar to be read regardless of the Bar Track Status setting.

A new option, allow speak windows in edit boxes, has been added to
the general menu.  This option tells Window-Eyes whether or not to
allow newly drawn text (in an edit box) that you did not type to be
spoken if it falls in the area of a speak window.

Window-Eyes is now faster and more stable. 

***Changes from Window-Eyes 1.05 to 1.1

Set2text and text2set have been included with this version.  
See appendix G in the manual for full documentation.

Window-Eyes now shows "Window-Eyes" as its title bar at all
times unless the control panel is popped up.  This solves a
problem that would make the title bar inaccurate as to which
application/set file was running.

HOT KEYS

The Mouse Beginning of Line hot key.  This hot key moves the 
mouse to the beginning of the line honoring the mouse boundary 
setting.

Mouse End of Line hot key.  This hot key moves the mouse to the 
end of the line honoring the mouse boundary setting.

Top Mouse, Mouse Bottom, Left Mouse, and Mouse Right.  
They work exactly like the corresponding caret hot keys, but they 
use the mouse position as a starting point.  They also honor the 
mouse boundary setting.

Miscellaneous

Several problems with user windows have been corrected.

Combo edit boxes are now recognized.  For an example of this
feature look at the fonts dialog under the character pull down
in write.

Cursor delay problems have been corrected.  We were using the
wrong caret position for delayed cursoring keys.

The caret and mouse prior, current, and next sentence and
paragraph hot keys should now work correctly.  The mouse versions
of these keys should honor the mouse boundary.

If you put extended keys (non-alphanumeric) in the keylabel
dictionary they will now work correctly and prevent processing
by the character dictionary.  An example of this is the insert in
WordPerfect.  You can now define this key to nothing and stop the

The shift key may be used with other modifiers in the key label 
dictionary now.

Key label and character dictionary entries are now processed for
hot keys rather than being ignored  for compatibility with
Vocal-Eyes.

Speak windows now work when a MDI child has focus.

Signal Caret Pos has been renamed to Signal Caret Position.

Signal Caret Position now works properly.

The ability to include the window style with the class for a 
reclassed control has been added.  A field to show the
window style in the reclass dialog and a check box to include the
style with the reclass has also been added.  If you have 
a reclass with the style and without the style, the reclass 
with the style takes precedence.

Window-Eyes now accounts for the fact that Windows minimizes
Program Manager when you start it with a program as a command-line
argument.  Because of this Program Manager should no longer be
minimized if you start Windows with werun.bat.

Window-Eyes should now work correctly with the American
Heritage dictionary and also with WinCim.  You will probably need
to turn bar track off when using WinCim.

Window-Eyes now recognizes read only edit boxes.  The edit
boxes in our reclass dialog are good examples of this type of
control.

A new option has been added to the general menu.  The Caret Blink
Rate option will globally change the Windows caret blink rate.
Window-Eyes now overrides the blink rate set in win.ini to solve
caret loss problems with MS Word.  Window-Eyes will restore the 
blink rate when Window-Eyes is removed from memory.  the blink rate 
is set to 100 by default, but you can change this from 20 to 1200.  
Values over 150 on a Pentium 133 have been found to cause the caret to
be lost when backspacing in MS Word.  

Speak windows now ignore graphics if you set a specific
window color.  This makes them consistent with the behavior of
the window reading hot keys.

If you use the Set User Window Color hot key Window-Eyes now
unchecks the Match Any Foreground and Match Any Background check
boxes for the window.

insert from talking.

the Title/Status option has been added to the cursoring key
action combo boxes.  This option works exactly like the Read
Title/Status of Active App hot key.

Window-Eyes now uses a set of internal default settings if
no set files exist or if you try to load a set file that is not
the correct version.

Window-Eyes should now silence immediately accept for when text
is being read by speak windows or the Speak All Toggle hot key.

Hot keys should now always perform their actions.  If your
system is busy it might take some time, but the actions should
always be performed.

A new option for the [misc] section of wineyes.ini has been added.  
The option

minimumgraphicsize=x

where x ranges from 2 to 10, controls the minimum size that a
graphic must be before we will store it in the OSM.  The default
is 7.  If you notice that Window-Eyes does not store very small 
graphics, try decreasing this value.

The blank lines setting would be ignored while reading via
line with the mouse if the boundary was set to full screen.

The Mouse Search and Mouse Cont Search hot keys now put you
on the text you were looking for rather than the beginning of
the clip containing the text.

The Mouse Search and Mouse Search Cont hot keys now work
correctly when finding in the reverse direction.  Previously they
would always go to the beginning of the clip containing the text
you were searching for.

Several corrections have been made to make the OSM both faster and
more accurate. 

Set Files and Graphics Dictionaries

We've added many new set files and dictionaries to Window-Eyes 1.05
and are adding more all the time.  If you have a modem, check the
bulletin board or FTP site from time to time to see if we've added
files for any of your Windows applications.  Be sure you have
Window-Eyes 1.05, since the format of the set files has changed
with the upgrade and older versions of Window-Eyes can't read new
set files.  If you don't have a modem, give us a call.

*** Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact GW
Micro at the following address:

GW Micro, Inc.
725 Airport North Office Park
Fort Wayne, IN  46825  USA
voice: (219) 489-3671
fax: (219) 489-2608
BBS: (219) 489-5281
E-mail: support@gwmicro.com
