[BRLTTY] Alva BC640 perkins input

[Nicholas Dechman]

Yes, I just tried it again, investigating the effect of focus on the input of keys, and I discovered that focus does not seem to make any difference.

However, while I was fooling with focus I allowed some time to pass with BrlTTY running by itself, and discovered that about 15 seconds after starting BrlTTY the perkins key input starts working again.  So perhaps it is a transitional state where the alva's keyboard driver is trying to figure itself out.

So just to see what happened, I started my application and waited a minute or so before attempting perkins input, but, unfortunately it still does not allow input.

But, you are correct:  it appears that BrlTTY by itself is not preventing keyboard input.

-Nick


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 From: Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc>
To: Nicholas Dechman <ndechman at yahoo.com>; Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. <brltty at mielke.cc> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Alva BC640 perkins input
 
[quoted lines by Nicholas Dechman on 2012/07/11 at 08:02 -0700]

>So... That's even more interesting.  It seems to allow keyboard input after I use BrlAPI but not before!

Could you please reverify that keyboard input always doesn't work before you 
use BrlAPI for the first time? This, to me, is unexpected. Starting/stopping 
BrlAPI use does absolutely nothing to impact whether or not the driver will 
recognize keyboard events and/or the core will handle them.

Could the actual difference, perhaps, be where the focus is?

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