[BRLTTY] qemu/vmware/... virtual braille devices?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,


Nicolas Pitre, le Thu 10 Jan 2008 10:36:33 -0500, a écrit :
> I've been pondering about this for a while, and came to the conclusion 
> that no braille device could properly masquerade all the others in a 
> generic way.

Masquerade all keys of all others is most probably impossible yes.

> So I think you should either create a truly generic virtual braille 
> display and have Windows applications support it (difficult),

Very, yes. I wouldn't even know how to convince them to do that.

> or create a pass-through mechanism to let the virtual machine access
> the real display when it is on the foreground, and simulate an USB
> disconnect when BRLTTY needs to get control of the display back.

Yep, this sort of thing could be doable as another alternative. Also,
Sébastien suggested to define a virtual device that would just talk
BrlAPI.

Samuel