[BRLTTY] Xbrlapi

[Willie Walker]

Sorry - that made absolutely no sense.  The alternative I was thinking
of was to extend the API to allow me to add a callback for events.  My
return value to this callback would be the boolean consume value.

Will

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 09:47 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> As an alternative approach...
> 
> Would it be possible to add functionality to readKey to allow me to
> return a boolean 'consumes' value to it?  A value of True would be I'm
> going to handle it, a value of False would mean send it on to whatever
> else has an interest in it.  With this, I wouldn't need to keep setting
> and unsetting the key ranges I care about.
> 
> Will
> 
> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 23:57 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Willie Walker, le Mon 11 Dec 2006 17:48:19 -0500, a écrit :
> > > > >Orca currently only has bindings for CMD_FWINLT, CMD_FWINRT, CMD_LNUP,
> > > > >CMD_LNDN, CMD_TOP_LEFT, CMD_BOT_LEFT, and CMD_HOME, and it also listens
> > > > >for any cursor routing key.  
> > > > 
> > > > I suggest you ignoreKeyRange() everything, acceptKeyRange() the routing key
> > > > block, and acceptKeySet() a list containing the other keys.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!  I'm having trouble figuring out how to express "everything".
> > > Would that be:
> > > 
> > > everything=[0, 0x1FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]
> > 
> > Rather [0, KEY_FLAGS_MASK|KEY_TYPE_MASK|KEY_CODE_MASK]
> > 
> > > routingKeyBlock=[KEY_CMD_ROUTE, KEY_CMD_ROUTE+<display width>]
> > 
> > I'd rather say
> > 
> > [KEY_CMD_ROUTE,KEY_CMD_ROUTE|KEY_CMD_ARG_MASK]
> > 
> > > Where KEY_CMD_ROUTE=(KEY_TYPE_CMD | 0x20000) and
> > > KEY_TYPE_CMD=0x0000000020000000?
> > 
> > KEY_CMD_ROUTE is already defined in the brlapi module to (KEY_TYPE_CMD |
> > 0x10000)
> > 
> > > In addition, for each of the commands, do I express them using the
> > > KEY_CMD_* constants, such as KEY_CMD_HOME,
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > which is defined to be (KEY_TYPE_CMD | 29)?
> > 
> > Mmm, no, it's defined to
> > KEY_SYM_HOME = (KEY_TYPE_SYM | 0x0000ff50)
> > (again, in the brlapi module).
> > 
> > > Also, acceptKeySet is not implemented in the Python bindings.  Can I
> > > call acceptKeyRange giving it ranges of length 1?
> > 
> > For experimenting right now, yes.  I'll implement it.
> > 
> > > Finally, is the key range inclusive, or does it exclude the last value
> > > in the range?
> > 
> > It is inclusive.
> > 
> > Samuel
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