From: "wbsurfver@..." <wbsurfver@...>
Date: 2008-03-29T21:10:06+09:00
Subject: how to get raw keyboard input in windows ?


 I have this program, it just runs and anytime the clipboard changes
and contains some large size,
it run the speech thing through win-sapi. So I can go to any website,
highlight some text and copy it to the clipboard and it will speak the
text. I can't get it to interupt very well. If you hit control-c it
won't
stop until it's done with the text, thus I broke it into lines.

Here's my current problem:
 I would like to be able to read raw keyboard data, so that if I hit
spacebar or some function key, it would pause, even if the dos shell
running the program was not in focus. How can I do that ?


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require 'win32/clipboard'
include Win32
require 'win32ole'


class MySpeech

def initialize

@obj_voice = WIN32OLE.new("SAPI.SpVoice")
@obj_get_voices = @obj_voice.GetVoices

@obj_get_voices.each { |voice| puts voice.GetDescription }

end


def talk(txt)
  done = false
  lines = txt.split(/$/)
    lines.each do |ln|
      @obj_voice.speak ln
    end
  end

def run
prev = Clipboard.data
while true
  curr = Clipboard.data
  if curr and curr != prev and curr.length > 80
    talk curr
    prev = curr
  end
end
end


end


spkthr = Thread.new do
  spk = MySpeech.new
  spk.run
end

spkthr.join