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

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

As Dave said, you most probably want to use the xw driver. Also, it's
expected that it doesn't show a braille device by default, just because
on windows we enable auto-driver-release by default, to let other screen
readers take the braille device when they want to.  You can modify
brltty.conf by hand (yes, the configurator doesn't show all options,
only a few ones, but you can modify the .conf file, it's a mere text
file.), to uncomment

release-device off

to disable that auto-release.

But that's only to get the device always shown.  Your actual issue
is getting brlapi running (and getting that fixed would *also* make
the braille device show up). Dave, did you have really apply the
defauth.patch when building the zipball?

D&J Renaldo, le Mon 24 Nov 2014 18:24:23 +0100, a écrit :
> I only saw something when using BRLTTY in the debug mode and run it as
> administrator but it's not manageable.

What happens when you try to run BRLTTY not as administrator?

Unfortunately none of us really has a win7 box, so we have next to no
idea what is happening.

> It seems that the Brl API has not the rights to work properly but I don't
> know how to provide those rights.

What makes you think this?  Which message appears, exactly?  We need the
exact message so we can know exactly which right is missing.  Otherwise
we can only try to divine, which is a hard exercice.

> This is a change due to Windows 7 where you cannot access to C:/Program
> Files without "admin" rights.

Well, I do hope that normal users can still read files there, can't
they?

Another way to go could be to just unpack the .zip version somewhere
that the user has full access to.

> But I thought that the xw driver could emulate those devices and give me
> enough flexibility to test BRLTTY-CI interface.

Yes, it should.

Samuel