[BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

[Rob Meredith]

Dave Mielke said

>I'd rather not do it if it's awkward. Since neither shift nor control means
>anything with space, we could make pressing those keys on their own, i.e.
>without any dot keys, be space, and pressing them with dot keys mean shift and
control. Would that be too confusing?

I don't think this would work, because users would expect space with dot keys to perform chord functions, and this would block chord functionality.

The function keys are four small round keys on the front edge of the display. F1 and F2 are left of B9, and F3 and F4 are right of B0. In the case of the Connect 24, you could press them with other keys, but since the thumb would likely be used to press the function key in this case, it is a bit of a stretch. It isn't a stretch on the Connect 12.

Rob

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[quoted lines by Rob Meredith on 2008/08/22 at 12:54 -0400]

>I think it would be awkward, but people would probably get used to it.

I'd rather not do it if it's awkward. Since neither shift nor control means
anything with space, we could make pressing those keys on their own, i.e.
without any dot keys, be space, and pressing them with dot keys mean shift and
control. Would that be too confusing?

>Along a similar line, I am not getting any codes for F1 through F4, and these
>keys exist on the Connect 12 and the Connect 24. I wonder if strategic use of
>these keys could help.

Where are they on the device? How easy is it to press them in conjuction with
other keys?

>Or, perhaps other Baum displays don't provide these keys and that is why they
>are not supported in BRLTTY?

Yes, that's why. That doesn't mean we can't use them, though. I, as usual, am
always wide open to suggestions.

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