[BRLTTY] Input from HelpTech Actilino

[Lars Bjørndal]

Before we consider other combinations, did you see the key presses in the log file I attached to the prevous email? E.g. is it possible that we can detect key presses like left+in, are these combinations detected at all by BRLTTY?

If not, we could use the joystick together with a dot, e.g. dot 7 or 8.

Lars

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 02:56:54PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
> Lars Bjørndal <lars at lamasti.net> writes:
> 
> > Hi, Mario!
> >
> > You wrote:
> >
> >> Lars Bjørndal <lars at lamasti.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> > My point is that I can do pretty much without a QWERTY keyboard,
> >> > while using the keyboard on Actilino for input. However, in the
> >> > defualt keyboard layout, I cannot find a funcion to simulate the Home
> >> > and End functions.
> >> 
> >> What about adding the following to /etc/brltty/Input/ht/joystick.kti:
> >> 
> >> bind Left+Action KEY_HOME
> >> bind Right+Action KEY_END
> >> bind Up+Action KEY_PAGE_UP
> >> bind Down+Action KEY_PAGE_DOWN
> >> 
> >> Does that work for you?
> >
> > No, sorry. Nothing happens when I press these combinations. Please find a debug log attached.
> 
> This is sad, because it would be quite a good binding.
> Do you have any suggestions which key combination to use for these?
> 
> We are a bit stuck since the HandyTech input mode is not the same as
> with most other braille displays.  The reason for this is that we are
> (ab)using the two space keys for typing characters with the control
> and/or meta (alt) modifiers.  This is very useful at times, but also
> means that we don't have classical chord command bindings.
> We could in theory switch over to how chords are done with most other
> displays.
> However, we'd loose control and meta modifiers.
> On the other hand, we'd win bindings like Chord+Dot2+Dot3 (PageUp) and
> Chord+Dot5+Dot6 (PageDown).
> 
> -- 
> CYa,
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