[BRLTTY] Braille Sense qwerty keyboard support.

[Vincent LE GOFF]

I've tested a bit more.  The underscore (_) works fine.  Actually I 
tried most keys on the BrailleSense keyboard and they seemed to work (I 
could type from this keyboard without errors).

I was referring to the other keyboard, as a matter of fact.  The 
computer's.  On NVDA and Orca (and I think on BRLTTY), one can use the 
numpad7 and numpad9 to go up and down in the window.  Of course, one can 
do that from the Braille display keyboard as well, but I'm used to 
typing a command on the computer's keyboard and typing numpad7 on the 
same keyboard right away to read what it said.  I think these keys still 
work, but they don't display anything on the Braille display.  The line 
where the "real" cursor is is still being displayed.  Disabling cursor 
tracking makes the display not following the cursor (so typing a command 
and pressing enter doesn't change the Braille display focus, which is 
still on the old line). It would be great so be able to control the 
Braille display from the computer-s keyboard (or move a review cursor 
that the Braille display can follow).  I'm quite positive this feature 
was available on older versions of BRLTTY, but as I've said, I havent 
tested it in a while.

The Fn+keys do work.  Fn+h brings up the help menu.  Fn+p brings up the 
preferences menu.  Fn+t (although nothing is displayed) does 
enable/disable the cursor tracking mode.  The navigation keys can also 
be used to bring the help and preference menu, and to save preferences 
(thanks for reminding me to do so, I had forgotten). The navigation is a 
bit different than the original mapping. However if it's too much work 
to remap these keys, it's not a huge issue either.  Correction:  I must 
admit I have a doubt regarding the inial mapping now, because the 
BrailleSense natively uses very small lines in length, so it's hard to 
be sure.  Perhaps you were right in your mapping and I was wrong all 
along.  I must admit this mapping makes more sense.

Vincent

On 12/18/2015 12:22 PM, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Vincent LE GOFF on 2015/12/18 at 11:36 -0800]
>
>> One thing that I have been unable to do, although I think it's a matter of
>> configuration, is to have the Braille display follow the virtual cursor when
>> you move it using the standard keyboard numpad7 to go up and numpad9 to go
>> down.  But perhaps it's a feature of another screen reader.  I haven't been
>> using Linux in awhile (it's finally about to change!).
> The key pad has two modes. On Linux, the it's initially set to being numbers.
> It can be toggled between the two modes via the num lock key.
>
> You should be able to use the arrow keys, page up/down, and home/end to do the
> same thing. If even they don't work then maybe the cursor tracking feature
> (bound to Function-t) is turned off.
>
> Did you notice if the underscroe is or isn't working?
>
> Remember, after changing settings in the menu, to save your changes.
>
> I'm curious to know if the function key works with more than just letters.
> Perhaps you could log what happens when you press it with numbers, the open and
> close square and curly brackerts, etc.
>