[BRLTTY] Reading Dots 7-8 From BrlAPI

[Rob Meredith]

Dave:

>Do you know why some models are called BrailleConnect while others are called VarioConnect?

No, I sure don't. I've never heard of/seen a VarioConnect.

Regarding chords versus commands...

Yes, the Braille Connect has six keys which are mapped to BRLTTY commands. We are trying to determine, however, if we could receive chorded keystrokes as chords, rather than as commands. I realize this is a complex issue, since apparently BRLTTY uses chords on some devices as commands. Nevertheless, it seems like there are situations when getting keystrokes as chords would prove useful. What are your thoughts on this?

Rob

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From: brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc] On Behalf Of Dave Mielke
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:14 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 2008/08/25 at 16:07 -0400]

>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.

Thanks. It's now been applied to the development stream. Perhaps Andor can tell
us how well it works on his VarioConnect 40?

Do you know why some models are called BrailleConnect while others are called
VarioConnect?

>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?

You don't see the individual key events ... you see commands. The bindings are
currently done within the driver itself. We haven't bound any chorded key
combinations yet since the functions are already bound to combinations of the
six original Vario keys. Do the BrailleConnect models have those keys?

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