Unimacro Questions
Submitted by Eliana on Mon, 01/21/2008 - 15:21.
I've been looking at the web site for Unimacro and I have some questions about it.
1. Are there pre-made functions and help files included with the install so that a beginning user without much programming knowledge can use Unimacro?
2. Since the installation overwrites Natlink, is it reversible? (That is, if I save a copy of the overwritten files, can I uninstall Unimacro without losing my existing Vocola and Natlink scripts?)
Thank you,
Eliana
Unimacro functionality and installation
1. There is a whole bunch of premade functions, which is sort of the whole point of unimacro. The documentation is not always clear but the functionality is covered by what is referred to as grammars. Some examples:
Switching tasks using mouse positioning
Navigating folders, whether they are in Windows Explorer, open/save file dialogs, etc.
Browsing the web using Firefox and the mouseless browsing add-on
Accessing folders and files ("Favourites")
Keystroke navigation and typing
You should find that unimacro complements vocola very nicely. See my comments here: http://www.speechcomputing.com/node/1716#comment-7077
2. During the installation of unimacro you need to replace two files that are part of NatLink. According to the instructions on the unimacro website you can restore these files by rerunning the natpython installer (or by keeping a backup copy of them):
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Natlinksystem files
* Get from SourceForge the two files of the natlink system.
* Unzip these to the core folder of the natlink system (C:\Program Files\Natlink\macrosystem\core). Overwrite the previous ones.
* If you might want to return to the original files, you can rerun the Natpython 1.5.0 installer.
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Apart from those two files, unimacro resides in its own directory. So it is very easy to remove an installation if for some reason you don't like it.
Unimacro
Thanks!