[BRLTTY] HIDE CURSOR

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Thu Dec 15 15:47:44 EST 2011


On Mon, 12 Dec 2011, Phillip wrote:

>  I will try to explain as much as possible.
> 
> We are developing display braille. In our case , we haven´t hardware part
> yet but we have prototype that represents the final product, was that
> boards that you saw on the youtube´s video. And we have a huge problem, our
> hardware have some different skills that others displays in the market
> doesn´t have. One skill that our display will have is the cursor system.
> This system will be done in the hardware, by microcontroller and not in the
> driver BRLTTY. So, when the user press the arrows keys of keyboard for
> navigation into text, the driver can´t move the cursor. Because the
> navigation in the text will be make by buttons in the own hardware.

To me this is a step backward in the design of braille displays.
Why are you doing this?

At least I'm now warned to look for this.


Nicolas


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