[BRLTTY] WG: Handytech displays question

[Samuel Thibault]

MENGUAL Jean-Philippe, on mar. 06 juin 2017 10:59:42 +0200, wrote:
> ----- Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> a écrit :
> > [quoted lines by Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech GmbH on 2017/06/06 at 09:08 +0200]
> > >Finally, with Active Braille or Active Star, you can use the Direct Transfer feature to transfer textual data from the Braille display to a connected device. To do so, select some text in the internal editor, then press chord+157 (capital E). This will transfer the text as if it had been typed on a connected keyboard, so please make sure the other device is ready to take text at that point.
> > 
> > Does this method send key press/release events? If so, a problem would arise if 
> > the device's internal translation table differs in any way from the current 
> > brltty text table being used. We could deal with this if you could send me that 
> > internal translation table so that we could also include it as a 
> > brltty-provided text table.
> 
> And I am afraid it does not work on X environments.

Mmm, I don't see why it shouldn't. brltty would pass the events to
xbrlapi, which would simulate the keypresses.

Samuel