[BRLTTY] Terminal Type for Braille Edge connected via BRLTTY
Kevin Fjelsted
kfjelsted at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 06:40:18 EDT 2016
> Which keys are you using for the up and down arrows when you have a braille
> keyboard?*** I have tried both sets of up and down arrows.
>
> How are the keyboard and the Braille Edge arrows behaving differently? If I'm
> understanding correctly, the keyboard arrows are doing what you want. What are
> the Braille Edge's arrow keys doing instead? Are they still moving up and down
> the screen?
> *** The Edge arrows are being ignored in our program and we get no characters back from them when they are pressed.
> Have you remapped your system's key layout in any way?
> *** No remapping.
> Does the program send an escape sequence on startup to switch the keyboard to
> alternate keypad mode, and then watch for the alternate escape sequences? *** No is this what we need to do?
> On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:36 AM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
>
> [quoted lines by Kevin Fjelsted on 2016/09/02 at 05:19 -0500]
>
>>> Do you mean the up and down arrows on the Braille Edge's keyboard?
>>
>> Yes.
>
> Which keys are you using for the up and down arrows when you have a braille
> keyboard?
>
> How are the keyboard and the Braille Edge arrows behaving differently? If I'm
> understanding correctly, the keyboard arrows are doing what you want. What are
> the Braille Edge's arrow keys doing instead? Are they still moving up and down
> the screen?
>
> Have you remapped your system's key layout in any way?
>
> Does the program send an escape sequence on startup to switch the keyboard to
> alternate keypad mode, and then watch for the alternate escape sequences?
>
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