[BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

[Rob Meredith]

Dave:

I tried your patch with a Braille Connect 12. (The Connect 24 is a loaner, and I don't have it at the moment, but I hope to get it back soon.) From what I can tell with the Connect 12, the patch looks good. But, this brings me to another question.

Since space is indicated by no dot bits being set in the argument of BRLAPI_KEY_CMD_PASSDOTS, how can I detect chorded keys? With your latest patch, when I press space with dot keys, nothing appears to happen. That is, I don't get any input. Is this something that could be addressed, and if so, what would be a good way to solve it?

Rob

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From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc] On Behalf Of Dave Mielke
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 3:30 PM
To: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

[quoted lines by Rob Meredith on 2008/08/22 at 14:55 -0400]

>I think this would make a lot of sense, especially on the Connect 12 where
>they are both needed, and easy to reach.

Please try the attached patch (baum-dots78-3.patch), which replaces the
previous patch. Now, b9,b0,b11 should all be space, and F2-F3 should be
alternates for dots 7-8.

>I guess I'm not sure of the difference from the user's perspective, since I
>would probably use these for shift and control anyway. How are dots 7-8
>normally used when typed if not for shift and control? (I realize the
>technical difference.)

There's no difference for the usual Latin1-style text tables, but it gets more
complex in other languages.

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