Author Topic: DONE: Push2Talk (Read 25052 times)

rin67630 · « **on:** February 13, 2006, 03:12 AM »

DonationCoder has a programm to toggle the microphone on/off.

I just dreamt of extending it to chose between "toggle" and "push to talk".

Alternatively a separate program would do,

That would surely be a useful extension, isn't it?

Regards

skrommel · « **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2006, 05:39 PM »

By push to talk you mean click and hold the mouse down over, say, a tray icon? Or do you need a separate window?

Skrommel

rin67630 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 21, 2006, 05:40 AM »

Ouch!
i did not formulate my request accurately enough!

I thought of a hotkey that would enable the microphone (in the audio settings) *as long as it is depressed*, and disable it when it is released.

There is no need for any special display.

Regards

skrommel · « **Reply #3 on:** February 23, 2006, 05:21 AM »

Here's a hotkey solution:

PushToTalk - Press and hold Win+S to activate the microphone, release to disable.

Features:
- Use Win+S for push-to-talk.
- Doubleclick the tray icon to toggle mic on or off.

Skrommel

Josh · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2006, 05:00 PM »

For some reason, WIN+S isnt doing anything for me. The toggle in the right click menu doesnt change nor do I get a tooltip when pressing win+s, the mic remains active. Any ideas as to why?

skrommel · « **Reply #5 on:** April 26, 2006, 03:25 AM »

What operating system are you using?

Skrommel

Josh · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2006, 04:01 AM »

Windows XP Pro SP2

AlainCh · « **Reply #7 on:** October 30, 2006, 08:39 AM »

THx for the prog ..
But.
I use a softphone for VOIP so My mic is always on and sometime react badly on the surroundings sounds :-))

I tried to use PushToTalk but its not easy doing .
My keyboards have NOT the Win key ( I hate the WIN key)
If it was there, it is not anymore !! :-)))) I tore it away.

Well now ... How can I open / close the mic??

The tray Icon is just so so ..
I'm used to the auto hide feature for the taskbar (vertical left)

A button that appears when I need to talk on the phone would be great.

I can press it with the mouse ..
or alternatively use any KB button I can assign to do the job
... instead of using the fixed Win+s

I mean (till the said button is visible)
I can assign the CTRL key to do the activation (or any other SINGLE key),
when the mic is not needed anymore the key will return to its normal job.

In this case the key can act as a LIVE button (active when pressed)
or as a toggle button (press once activate the Mic, press again disactive the Mic)
This way it should fit any way a user need to use the microphone.

Many thanks !!
best regards

AlainCh (

mouser · « **Reply #8 on:** November 02, 2006, 11:34 PM »

hi alainch, sorry no one else has responded before now; the pushtotalk autohotkey script should be quite easy to edit to do what you want, i think it would only take skrommel or jgpaiva a minute to modify it to use a different key combination - i will alert them to this post and see what can be done!

AlainCh · « **Reply #9 on:** November 03, 2006, 09:30 AM »

OOOOHHHH !!!!

thats great !
Many thx

I'm waiting to hear more :-))

AlainCh · « **Reply #10 on:** November 03, 2006, 01:11 PM »

UP

and thx !!

Even if ...

AlainCh ( It's not already DONE

jgpaiva · « **Reply #11 on:** November 03, 2006, 03:55 PM »

This is just a quick fix as this isn't really my script and i'm quite busy at the moment.
I've set the hotkey to ctrl+shift+S. I didn't use ctrl+S because that would make it impossible to use ctrl+S for anything else, and that's a quite important hotkey.

If you'd rather have it with any other hotkey, please just say it.

[edit] attachments removed... see below[/edit]

AlainCh · « **Reply #12 on:** November 03, 2006, 07:54 PM »

Well THX thats better then before ...
BUt please can you make a SINGLE key ???
may be the BlockNUm or the PAUSE whatever its convenient to you

MANY THX !!!! ...

________________

Tried it ... seems not to work.
BTW I looked at the script ... may be I can m0pdify it myself..
how do you compile that ??

Where can I find any reference to that language ??

Once upon a time I was ..

AlainCh ( a programmer

jgpaiva · « **Reply #13 on:** November 03, 2006, 08:34 PM »

Ok... I changed it to the insert key (i didn't use the pause key as there seems to be some error in ahk with that key... very weird).

It's programmed in [url=http://www.autohotkey.com[/url]autohotkey[/url]. Just check the site, the distribution comes with a very complete help file.

Ok, it should work now.

mouser · « **Reply #14 on:** November 03, 2006, 10:14 PM »

as jgp says, alainch you shoud download autohotkey and check out the .ahk script - i'll bet you figure out how to customize it without much difficulty.

AlainCh · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2006, 04:33 AM »

I'm trying to get the right of it ..
But while I changed the keys ..
I cant get MY key working .. BUT
(that's strange)
the WIN+S still work !!

LOOK :
_________ 2nd version _______
#s::
SoundGet,micvol,Microphone:2,Volume
ToolTip,Mic is On
SoundSet,100,Microphone:2,Volume
Loop
{
Sleep,100
If GetKeyState(F12,P)

Break
}
ToolTip,Mic is Off
SoundSet,0,Microphone:2,Volume
Sleep,200
ToolTip,
Return

_______________

I tried the original putting into it the F12 ..
nothing ....
now I tried this one .. Win+s is not felt anymore :-)
nor the F12

Thx for your
AlainCh ( HELP !

jgpaiva · « **Reply #16 on:** November 05, 2006, 04:45 AM »

OH, F12 is way nicer. Just change the one i did, replace "Insert" with "F12" on line 15 and 24, and you should be set to go. Didn't this last one i posted work for you?

AlainCh · « **Reply #17 on:** November 05, 2006, 04:52 AM »

NO, sorry

Your version was NOT working ..
while the Win+s worked the same

I tried to change the Key ... same result

Strange isn't it ??
I checked why that a such strange behavior...
what would have caused it ..

Discovered nothing

AlainCh ( lost
no way

AlainCh · « **Reply #18 on:** November 05, 2006, 04:53 AM »

I edited the previous post to your answer check it please ..

jgpaiva · « **Reply #19 on:** November 05, 2006, 04:56 AM »

Hum.. Then you need to change on on your script's first line, "#s" to "F12" and a few lines below "If GetKeyState(F12,P)" to " If not GetKeyState(F12,P)".

AlainCh · « **Reply #20 on:** November 05, 2006, 08:51 AM »

OK thx

That was it !!!

BUT
while now the F12 is felt :
with the NOT .. as you suggested
the Mic doesn't stay up but go up and down when I keep pressing
without the NOT
it goes up once when I hit it and nothing more even If I keep pressing

I tried to make interval longer but it's just slowing down the flip flop

Yes, I programmed some ..
AlainCh (25 years ago

These are some tests ..
then I changed key and debugged
. no value for the key seems to come inside but only once

_____________________________ Got Flip Flop

F12::
SoundGet,micvol,Microphone:2,Volume
ToolTip,Mic is On
SoundSet,100,Microphone:2,Volume
Loop
{
Sleep,100
If not GetKeyState(F12,P)

Break
}
ToolTip,Mic is Off
SoundSet,0,Microphone:2,Volume
Sleep,2000
ToolTip,
Return
___________- Tried this one from the Original script (Same Result flip flop)

F12::

SoundGet,micvol,Microphone:2,Volume
ToolTip,Mic is On
SoundSet,100,Microphone:2,Volume
Loop
{
Sleep,100
GetKeyState,states,F12,P
; GetKeyState,state,S,P
; states=%states%%state%
IfInString,states,U
Break
}
ToolTip,Mic is Off
SoundSet,0,Microphone:2,Volume
Sleep,2000
ToolTip,
Return
_______________ THis IS debug
As you'll see, The GetKeyState function
is not getting any value for the key :-((
_______________
NumpadIns::
Loop
{
PINS := GetKeyState(NumpadIns,P)
; MsgBox % "-" PINS "-"
sleep,100
If % PINS
   {
   ToolTip,Mic is On
   SoundSet,100,Microphone:2,Volume
   Sleep,1000
;   Tooltip,
   }
Else
   {
   ToolTip,Mic is Off
   SoundSet,0,Microphone:2,Volume
   Sleep,200
;   ToolTip,
   }
Break
}
Count+= 1
ToolTip, " Loop> " %count%
Return

jgpaiva · « **Reply #21 on:** November 05, 2006, 03:06 PM »

Oh.. Sorry, my fault. I see you had lots of work trying stuff out.
Actually, ahk's sintax has this smal pecularity: when you want to pass a constant argument to a function and not a variable, you must enclose it in quotes. This means the correct way to do it is the following:

F12::
SoundGet,micvol,Microphone:2,Volume
ToolTip,Mic is On
SoundSet,100,Microphone:2,Volume
Loop
{
Sleep,100
If not GetKeyState("F12","P")
Break
}
ToolTip,Mic is Off
SoundSet,0,Microphone:2,Volume
Sleep,2000
ToolTip,
Return

AlainCh · « **Reply #22 on:** November 05, 2006, 03:23 PM »

OK .. THX

but it still do the flip flop
Strange behaviour :-((

I tried the three sample I put in the post .. no way !!

Hard..
AlainCh ( ...NUT

PS :: Please give a try to the attached NUMPADins

jgpaiva · « **Reply #23 on:** November 05, 2006, 03:25 PM »

What do you mean by "flip-flop"? if you keep F12 pressed it won't keep the mic on?

AlainCh · « **Reply #24 on:** November 05, 2006, 03:28 PM »

try this with the volume control open
and look the mic cursor

AlainCh (please