[BRLTTY] BrlAPI Raw key code mode?

Shérab Sebastien.Hinderer at ens-lyon.org
Fri Aug 25 16:47:32 EDT 2017


Dave Mielke (2017/08/23 22:36 -0400):
> [quoted lines by Dave Mielke on 2017/08/23 at 17:33 -0400]
> 
> [quoted lines by Shérab on 2017/08/23 at 22:08 +0200]
> 
> >Couldn't we imagine that the clients define command groups and commands by
> >specifying their names and numerical values and then there could be
> >tables similar to the core ones mapping braille keys to these
> >client-defined commands?
> 
> Each client specifies which key ranges it'll handle. Those key ranges are for 
> values derived from key table processing. In other words, key table processing 
> occurs before determining which client should get any given key code, so key 
> table processing is common to all clients. Perhaps I'm missing something, but, 
> to me, that gets in the way of clients defining their own commands.

Indeed. That's why I suggested to provide the keybindigns processing
code as a library. That way this could be done by each client and the
code would still be shared.

Shérab.


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