[BRLTTY] Use BRLTTY under Windows 7 with Virtual Braille device

[D&J Renaldo]

Dear Dave,
I understand your answer. It's also where I arrived after multiple tries.
Now, I am using xw driver but it doesn't show anything.
I only saw something when using BRLTTY in the debug mode and run it as
administrator but it's not manageable.
It seems that the Brl API has not the rights to work properly but I don't
know how to provide those rights.
This is a change due to Windows 7 where you cannot access to C:/Program
Files without "admin" rights.
I am working as a volunteer for a non-profit French Association trying to
give access to scientific documents to Visually Impaired students. We have
selected Infty products and adapted French tables. Chatty Infty (CI) is now
providing a very good  speech to all mix of text and mathematical formulas.
But it is still necessary to have a Braille follow-up.
That why I have no Braille device and I thought using BRLTTY which can
interface plenty of those devices.
But I thought that the xw driver could emulate those devices and give me
enough flexibility to test BRLTTY-CI interface.
If you have any idea of what to do to obtain the xw under Windows 7.
With best regards
Denis

-----Message d'origine-----
De : brltty-bounces at mielke.cc [mailto:brltty-bounces at mielke.cc] De la part
de Dave Mielke
Envoyé : lundi 24 novembre 2014 17:47
À : Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY.
Objet : Re: [BRLTTY] Use BRLTTY under Windows 7 with Virtual Braille device

[quoted lines by D&J Renaldo on 2014/11/24 at 08:24 +0100]

>As I want to test a potential interface I tried to select "Virtual - 
>vr" as Braille device with "COM1" port.

That won't do what you might be expecting. Do you have an actual braille
device? If so, then you need to select the driver for it. If not, then you
should probably select the xw driver, which will open a window with a
virtual graphical braille display in it.

>The BrlAPI service is running but nothing is visible on my screen.

Using the xw driver should do what I think you're wanting to do.

>Is there any checklist to know all the parameters I need to make it 
>working ?

No, because the defaults usually do the right thing. In your case - not
having an actual braille device - try using the xw driver.

>How the "brltty.conf" file is taken into account by Brl API ?

The BrlAPI server (within brltty) uses it, but the BrlAPI client library
does not.

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