[BRLTTY] problem with defining some key bindings

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by payman shaykhmehdi on 2018/05/28 at 12:32 +0430]

>Is it possible to bind a combination of braille keys to a combination of
>keyboard keys?

Yes, and no. What's possible is combining any single key that isn't defined as
a modifier with any number of keys that are defined as modifiers (shift,
control, alt, etc).

>I've tried the following bind but it doesn't work :
>
>bind ScreenReader+Dot2+Dot3+Dot4  KEY_INSERT+PASSCHAR+s

The insert key isn't defined as a modifier. It could be, of course, but it
isn't right now. If it were, then the correct syntax would be:

   bind ScreenReader+Dot2+Dot3+Dot4 PASSCHAR+s+insert

>I need a lot of these type of bindings for Orca commands, but it seems that
>it isn't possible?

So you're trying to solve the problem of giving braille device access to more
Orca commands for a single braille device? I'm assuming this because no braille
device that I'm aware of has a key named ScreenReader.

May I suggest a different approach that'd be more useful to everyone? What
about defining more brltty commands, i.e. BRL_CMD_... - one for each useful
Orca command. Then, say, bind Dots78 + various intuitive combinations of dots 1
through 6 to those new commands. Then change Orca to recognize those new
commands and translate them to its own equivalents. If this were done, then,
almost by magic (your effort, of course), lots of braille users would
immediately gain a lot more functionality when using Orca.

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