[BRLTTY] The BrailleNote Apex QT Debacle

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Tue Aug 16 10:47:13 EDT 2011


[quoted lines by Sabahattin Gucukoglu on 2011/08/16 at 13:47 +0100]

>One of HumanWare's engineers finally made an appearance of HumanWare's mailing 
>list, stating for the record what we had hitherto only suspected: that they 
>buggered up with the latest KeySoft release, breaking protocol compatibility 
>for QT users, and that a patch would introduce a toggle for either the old or 
>new protocol.  The old protocol would be compatible with brltty; the new, 
>until we have documentation, would not.  The old protocol uses home-row input; 
>the new does not, doing QT (QWERTY) pass-through.

I have the documenation now. What I lack is the ability to test my changes as I 
don't have access to a device.

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