[BRLTTY] Braille Sense qwerty keyboard support.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Vincent LE GOFF on 2015/12/19 at 16:43 -0800]

>I hope I'm not too much in late.  

Not at all. Thanks for capturing those two logs.

>I had a major debugging to do on a different product all morning and part of 
>the afternoon.  And it's not even over, but I got a break.

That's fine. We all, myself included, have lives that include many things - not 
just this one. There've been plenty of times when others have been waiting for 
me to get something done.

>I've tried seeing both logs, but I got something really odd.

No, there's nothing odd about either log. A log is evidence - that's all it is. 
It only seems to be odd if we have a preconceived idea regarding what that 
evidence should be telling us.

>The first one (brltty.log) is an extended description when I plug the device 
>in.  It seems that it's not recognized... although it is.  I let you decide 
>what it means.

:-) It probably means that you started brltty about half a minute before you 
connected its USB cable. The driver does indeed detect the device just fine, 
but only on its sixth attempt. Since there's no evidence of any kind of failure 
(other than, without even a warning message, the driver failing to start for 
five times), I'm assuming that's because the device wasn't connected until the 
driver's sixth attempt.

In any event, this log does confirm that the support that was added for the new 
part of the protocol is indeed working correctly. It's also showing me exactly 
how long the device is taking to respond to the robe, which is very useful 
information.

>The second log has been done with less verbosity, to try FN_1, FN_[, FN-{ and 
>FN-, .  However, there seems to be only one key logged. And it doesn't match.  
>So this second test didn't give much information. Since FN is used internally 
>by the BrailleSense, perhaps (and only perhaps) these keys didn't send 
>anything to the console.  I would think such is the case, because I got an 
>alert sound, not from the computer, but from the BrailleSense itself, when I 
>pressed these keys.  

The absence of what we hope we're going to find still is information. This log 
is categorically telling me that we can't bind the function key to anything 
other than letters. That's exactly what I was wanting to check out.

>Still, here are both logs.

Please - and this applies to any and everyone - never hesitate to send me a log 
if you don't think it contains helful information. It usually does, and, in the 
case that it doesn't, it'll still give me the opportunity to suggest additional 
ways to try to gather the sought for data.

Can you think of anything else that you'd like to have supported? Are there any 
additional brltty functions that you wish were bound to some key combination?

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