[BRLTTY] brltty, cygwin and windoweyes

[Lars Bjørndal]

Hello!

Window-Eyes 6.x have the possibility of turning braille off in the set
file which is loaded when you start cmd.exe (the command prompt). You
can then start BRLTTY, eventually with the -r (release) option. If
you, however, alt-tab to another app., braille from Window-Eyes is not
reactivated automatically. I think the reason is that the
communication port is not freed up fast enough so that Window-Eyes is
able to use it. The only way to unload BRLTTY completely, as far as I
know, is to, from the console window, press alt-space to bring up the
system menu, and select 'close'.

A question is: Could the BRLTTY's release function be tied to the alt
key when in the console window? In case, I think the port will be free
early enough for Window-Eyes. Other or better solutions?

Best regards,
Lars

Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at myfreedombox.com> writes:

> I am now a new Windows user, primarily using Windoweyes, though also
> experimenting some with the jaws demo. I have just installed Cygwin
> and have installed the subversion brltty. I'm not sure how to handle
> the logistics of using brltty for cygwin while also using windoweyes
> for my Windows installation. I'm assuming that, unless I hook up two
> different braillelites to differen ports, I will have to somehow turn
> off braille in windoweyes, but I don't see any way to do this other
> than either turning off windoweyes completely or choosing "no display"
> in the windoweyes menus. Obviously I don't want to turn off windoweyes
> completely because then I'd have to turn it on again each time I
> wanted to do something on Windows. But is there a better way to handle
> turning off the braille display, assuming there's no way to make it
> work both in windoweyes and with brltty?
>
> Tia for any help.