Help on 'Send Message' Event

[rbziggy]

I'm trying out the Send Message (OS) event but don't think I know what I'm really doing here.

To explain... I have a Text To Speach program that runs as part of my HA setup that I'd like to be able to send a text string to. It will then speak the string out over the speakers. I beleive this program has a 'general' DDE/COM interface although documentation is sparse to say the least.

I was guessing that the Operating System Send Message command might let me do this but I don't understand what I need to put in the fields:

Class Name - what goes here?
Window Name - what goes here?
Message - Presumably my text string
wParam - Do I need this?
IParam - DO I need this?

I've played aroung using the programme process name ('ace-tts.exe') in both class and window name fields but no joy at all.

If anyone could explain I'd be most grateful!

Thanks

[badubo]

SendMessage can only send 'short' information (2 * 32 bits integers).

So, between process you cannot send text string

Also, SendMessage doesn't rely on COM/DDE interfaces.

Most commercial TTS systems use SAPI (4 or 5) interfaces. I think that girder has a module for such interfaces. Maybe you can send your text to girder and let girder do the rest

[rbziggy]

Thanks for the explanation. Looks like this was a bit of a dead end. I'll look for another way.