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

[Jeanine & Denis Renaldo]

Hello,
Many thanks to Samuel and Dave for their answers.
About the admin rights, I noticed that BRLTTY in debug mode is writing a log file in C:/Program Files/BRLTTY. That is the reason why it does not work properly under W7 without admin rights.
Regarding BrlAPI, the service is properly launched and run under W7 but nothing happens (no window, nothing, it looks idle). I don't know what commands/parameters are necessary to make it working and interacting with Chatty Infty application.
Thanks for your help.
Best regards
Denis


> Le 25 nov. 2014 à 20:14, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> a écrit :
> 
> 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
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