Category: Geeks r Us
Hi all.
I just wanted to inform anybody useing Windows 8.1 that GW connect will not work.
the Skype API haven't been updated so GW wont run on it.
Hi John,
GW-Connect probably won't work for that much longer anyway regardless of operating system as Skype is withdrawing support for the desktop API in December, so people might want to look for an alternative solution.
Agreed. That and GW Connect is very old-fashioned looking. Skype has great accessibility nowadays.
I should say the following:
There's another topic where people are confusing Desktop API with desktop application. The Skype desktop program is not going away. For non-geeks, API means application interface, for developers. Meaning their Desktop API will no longer be supported. That doesn't even mean you can't use alternate methods through Skype as a developer, one still could, just this gateway for developers will be closed. The desktop Skype application will still work just fine, however.
Just a clarification for people afraid their destop application will go away. It won't.
I don't see how GW Connect will go away. The people who already paid $50 this year will be awfully pissed if it just disappears in December, because I highly doubt GW Micro would provide refunds. You could say it's stupid to pay $50 just to get rid of ads, which I agree with, but there are people out there who did. I have a feeling that they're going to find a way around it.
Knowing GW, you may as well ask a friend to pay you back. This is why I left them. I didn't want to run the risks of dropping $50 on them just to kill the ads, then have Skype die off or something.
Well, I wouldn't pay $50 just to get rid of ads anyway, no matter what the program was, that's way overpriced. I could see if paying that amount of money added extra features, or was a one-time fee, but to pay that every year just to get rid of ads? No thank you. It's easy enough to shut them up by hitting control if you use Jaws. I imagine it would work the same way with NVDA, although I haven't tried it.
Oh, no. They're moving to ads that are in audio files now. Or at least they had some last I used it. One particularly popular one was the Dynamic Buna advertisement. Jesus, that caught my nerve something fierce.
it works the same with NVDA. just hit ctrl. but like I said until they fix that mick issue that i'm having where it automaticly screws with the volume ctrl on your mick, forget it.
skype will no longer except API requests as of december. this doesn't mean that GW Connect is going away anytime soon.
what is the mick issue you are having again zack? you are using XP right ?
yeah. the issue i'm having is that it keeps autmatically makeing adjustements and stuff and if my mick reaches 0, I have no way of knowing it and people think they have lost me, and there is no way to make it stop, unless your in the windows ctrl pannal changeing the mick volume that way and you have to keep your damn fingers held down to make it stay at 100. it's very annoying. it only seems to do this if you are using a u s b hedset, and not a regular one, as from what I saw when I didn't have the headset mick connected to the vm of xp that I have. turning the headset mick up using the headset volume buttons will have absolutely no effect what so ever. you must go change it under the windows ctrl pannal.
i do have to keep the volume control open. since i have a mixer and my mike is plugged inot that, and that mixer goes into the line in of my sound card, i need to change volumes every time i make a call (both when the call starts ringing, when the person answers, or when i recieve a call.
one workaround might be something like quickmix that you use to set volume controls to what you want via a hot key. i haven't tried this approach
I haven't seen this in Windows seven. Perhaps it's an issue with GWConnect and &P?
I have. A friend of mine did the things that was suggested to stop it from automaticly lowering the volume of other things under win7, and when she was talking, we left ehr volume ctrl open, and yes, when she was talking, the volume was being lowered, and when she wouldn't say nothing, slowly it would go back up. skype for the mac used to have this problem until they put an option in that you could disable it.
i've never seen a volume lower when you talk and raise up when you dont with GW connect.
that makes no sense as to wh why it would do that.
now under XP, the thing i'm talking about is how it only does what is set for default volume control and it defaults to mick on sound cards.
There's an option in the audio settings of skype to tell it to not automatically adjust the volume.
If you've already cleared that checkbox, then I have no idea what else you can do, that option worked for me, then again I'm not using a USB headset.
but this wont work for him since he's useing GW connect.
the GW thing is an API thing.
well, used to use gw connect, but use regular skype for windows. I have to use a u s b headset because my mac mini doesn't have a regular microphone port. so everything has to be u s b.
Then I can boil this discussion to the following conclusion: GW Connect has an issue that concerns USB headsets, and won't be your best solution.
this USB headset thing is a problem under all versions of windows? we haven't figured that out, have we? so w far we know it its a problem under Windows Xp running in a VM.
You'll know if you try and use Sound Recorder just to see if you can record with the mic in Windows XP on a VM.
It only does this using GW connect, not Skype. I haven't been on windows in a while, very seldomly actually, since I got the newest operating system for the Mac installed, almost a week ago.
I knew Buna in person years ago. She was just as annoying then as she is now, rattling on and on and on and on. Sounds like a little monkey.
She turned me off from GWConnect, though. My God!