[BRLTTY] Variable status cell displays and BrlAPI

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le Thu 26 Oct 2006 23:15:55 -0400, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/10/26 at 18:37 +0200]
> 
> >It might be useful to implement this in the core,
> >then, and present the whole display via BrlAPI (letting application
> >decide whether they want to use some status cells or not, and how many).
> 
> Yes, especially since it's implemented several times now. It might as well be
> done once centrally for all to take advantage of.
> 
> What happens, though, whenever the API supports the status cells via a display
> number? How would the API know what to use for status cells if the whole
> display is presented to it for text?

I'd say the API shouldn't decide anything and just let the application
decide.  An application may very well want to use 9 status cells
(because they're all useful) and 79 display cells (which is fine when
the text is not terminal-related).

Samuel