[BRLTTY] Xbrlapi

[Samuel Thibault]

Yannick PLASSIARD, le Mon 11 Dec 2006 16:10:45 +0100, a écrit :
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:56:27PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Yes, xbrlapi should be run before orca so that orca takes precedence.
> > This, again, should be solved with the generic preference mecanism we
> > expect to add soon.
> That's a problem: it seems that Orca take too much precedence: if I run 
> Orca after xbrlapi, all Braille keys are ignored

You mean the keys that produce letters?

> maybe Orca just unignore these keys and do nothing with them ?

It looks like this is what happens. Orca should ignore the key events
that it doesn't handle.

> > > I found one other bug: don't know why but when I tzpe a "@" it inserts a 
> > > "à" in the current window... As if the "Alt-grad" key was not pressed; 
> > > It may be for all modifiers, I have to test it...
> > 
> > Control and alt, since they are directly provided by brltty as
> > modifiers, should work fine.  Here the problem is that brltty doesn't
> > provide the modifier itself (it actually can't know which one should be
> > set), hence shifted and altgr-ed keys pose problem indeed: the
> > XKeysymToKeycode function is unfortunately not very powerful.  I'll dig
> > a bit more about this.
> 	What should be done to correct this ?

I told it: I'll dig into this problem.  The solution is far from trivial
since it involves the keyboard mapping.

Samuel