[BRLTTY] BC640: five blank cells and a block

[Tom Masterson]

The feature pack's keys will work in windows and they will work in note 
mode which you can get into in a variety of ways.  We are working on the 
feature pack keys.  I will be sending a log with two keys shortly they 
will be keys 1 and 4 when looking at braille cell.

Tom

On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:

> Dave got it, as usual. It was the split point. The base unit's keys
> all work; the feature pack's keys don't. I have a lot of learning to
> do before I can participate in that part of things...
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:49:31PM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
>> [quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2011/09/28 at 14:17 -0400]
>>
>>> there are five blank cells and a raised block on the left end of the display.
>>> I'd think it was status cells except that brltty says there are no status
>>> cells and when I modify it to say the status cells are on the left it puts the
>>> normal Alva three-character status cells, to the right of that raised block.
>>
>> This implies that the cells have been set aside by the Alva itself. This could
>> be for one of two reasons. The first is that a status cell region can be
>> defined within the BC640's menu. The other is that the BC640's split point
>> feature may be enabled.
>>
>> How many text cells does brltty say there are? I'm assuming, at this point,
>> that brltty is reporting 34 text cells (40 - the five blank cells minus the
>> block separator cell).
>>
>> Could yo let us know what every setting within the BC640's menu pertaining to
>> either status cells or split point is set to?
>
> -- 
>
> Lee Maschmeyer
>
> "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear
> to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than
> what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
>     --Lewis Carroll
>
> _______________________________________________
> This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list.
> To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY at mielke.cc
> For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
>