[BRLTTY] Alva BC640 perkins input

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed Jul 11 12:34:43 EDT 2012


Dave Mielke, le Wed 11 Jul 2012 10:48:17 -0400, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Nicholas Dechman on 2012/07/11 at 07:23 -0700]
> 
> >And I have a little more detail about the behavior.  The alva will still generate keyboard input after BrlTTY is started, but it stops generating them as soon as I take control of the device through BrlAPI.  After this, the keyboard events are not captured by BrlTTY, and if I give focus to another application and try to type some characters, the characters no longer appear.
> 
> This is an important piece of information. I believe it probably has to do with 
> your BrlAPI application not ignoring the keyboard key ranges so that they'll 
> pass through to brltty and be handled as expected. Can you confirm that 
> keyboard resonse comes back when you release BrlAPI control.

Mmm, we didn't remove PASSDOTS in initializeAcceptedKeys from the passed
events, maybe we should (just like we do for PASSXT/AT/PS2), perhaps
also PASSCHARS?

Samuel


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