[BRLTTY] Terminal Type for Braille Edge connected via BRLTTY

[kendell clark]

hi
Could his problem be a platform one? Example, when I connected my
borrowed braille sense up to my fiance's windows 7 box with the hims
driver installed, everything worked like it should except for those 
arrow keys at the left and right ends of the display. No program at all
would work with them. It's as if they weren't getting through to the
screen reader. Opening up nvda's learn mode, they simply read as "blank"
when they were pressed. If they work properly in voice over and jaws I'm
guessing my problem isn't the same as his, but it's possible. Those same
keys worked fine in linux, did exactly what they were supposed to do.
The cursor routing  keys worked fine in both platforms, it was just the
arrow keys at either end of the display that would only work in linux.
Thanks
Kendell Clark


Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Kevin Fjelsted on 2016/09/02 at 14:56 -0500]
>
>> That seems strange since the Edge arrow keys are responsive under other 
>> systems like VOiceOver and JAWS. 
> They're equally responsive under Linux using brltty. They're doing exactly what 
> they're supposed to be doing - navigating the braille display around the 
> screen.
>
> You're making an assumption that they should be behaving like arrow keys, but 
> that's wrong. They aren't arrow keys, even on all of the other platforms. 
> They're navigation keys. They're job is to move the braille display around the 
> screen without dragging the cursor.
>
>> So the edge must be sending out characters. 
> Not at all. It sends packets that indicate which of its keys are currently 
> pressed. Your program isn't working the way you'd like it to becuase you're 
> insisting on making an assumption that simply isn't true.
>