Help getting started about aenea

[calmofthestorm]

This weekend I'm doing a major reorg of aenea. Take a look at pre_split branch for a less-in-flux version.

The error when starting the X11 server is because you're using an old version of xdotool. If you update it it should fix that error at least. Note that I've never tested the X11 server on OS X; it's intended to work an a Linux host, and while I'm not familiar with OS X my understanding is that native apps don't use X there. I know there was an attempt at a OS X server at https://github.com/dopey/aenea-fork; not sure how it panned out.

You'll need to disable the Dictation Box to use the client. You can try using Notepad instead if you want to just test if grammars are working, but it won't let you send free-form dictation.

[calmofthestorm]

Also don't run the things in util; those are libraries for modules to use. The only thing you need to run on Windows (assuming your grammars are properly installed) is aenea_client.py if you want to capture free-form dictation.

[edk]

Cool thank you, I look forward to that. I was trying to test in my Ubuntu system before trying to figure out how to get it to work with OS X. And you are correct, while there is an Xquartz system, native Cocoa apps can't take advantage of that. I hope to get familiar with the system in linux before attempting to write a native osx server for this.

[calmofthestorm]

The only hard part would be figuring out how to do actions on OS X (is applescript still around?) If so, you could just copy server_x11.py to server_osx.py and change the actual RPC providers to the appropriate Applescript commands.

Let me know if you have further issues. One of the things I'm working on at the moment is a better way of installing/setting up grammars, it's a bit of a mess currently.

[edk]

Thank you for the update, the additional instructions in the readme are very helpful. Cheers!

[Xodarap]

What version of xdotool should we be using? I see that error but I think I might the newest version:

demo@ubuntu:~/aenea/server/linux_x11$ xdotool --version
xdotool version 2.20110530.1

[calmofthestorm]

That's a really old version. I'm on:

alexr@autumn:~$ xdotool --version
xdotool version 3.20141006.1

[mzizzi]

For what it's worth:

$ xdotool --version
xdotool version 3.20140217.1

[Xodarap]

Thanks! Where are you getting those versions from? The official website lists 2011 as the newest version; if I upgrade Ubuntu to the newest then I get up to 2013 but it seems like this release still has some issues.

[calmofthestorm]

https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool