[BRLTTY] Windows First Run

[Oriana Neulinger]

You, my friend, are a scholar and an esteemed sage. I have received report
that the device is finally displaying the desired Braille, and we are both
most grateful for your assistance.

A further note: I'm not sure if it's because of age or disuse, but this
Alva's cursor buttons aren't very responsive at first, and become more
responsive as the unit is used. I think I've heard some people say this
before.

I'm having her use the display for a half hour to test for further issues,
but I'm going to consider this topic closed. Thanks again for all your
help.

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 9:05 PM Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Oriana Neulinger on 2019/10/26 at 20:19 -0400]
>
> >The Alva's buttons didn't do anything individually, so that's why i was
> >hoping to get some keyboard shortcuts...
>
> They should work. Check what happens when in a console window.
>
> You can see what the keys do by going to brltty.app, clicking on
> Documentation,
> then on Key Binding Lists, and then on Braille Device Bindings. Then scroll
> down to Alva, and click on Satellite (small). I've attached the key
> bindings
> for the Satellite 544 (as alva-544.txt) to this message.
>
> >What do you mean by enable the API? I'm assuming it's enabled by default,
> >right?
>
> Yes, but you don't necessarily want to continue to run brltty manually. If
> you
> run brltty's install.bat script (renamed to enable-brlapi.bat in the
> development stream for the next release) then the BrlAPI service will be
> installed and started. And, yes, the uninstall.bat script (renamed to
> disable-brlapi.bat) stops and removes the service. Note, though, that you
> won't
> get the debug logs when brltty is running via the BrlAPI service.
>
> >What does it mean that "no-api off" is commented?
>
> It means that off is the default for the no-api option. Yes, it's like a
> double
> negative but the option is, after all, to disable the API.
>
> >Or do I need to do things like run the api executable, create the key,
> >uncomment the path to the key in the config, etc?
>
> If you want to play with enhyancing security then you might want to set up
> the
> key. For now, though, in order to keep things simple, you should probably
> set
> the API's auth parameter to none.
>
> >Does this executable need to be run every time brltty is started?
>
> No. Just use those .bat scripts as described above.
>
> >Did we need to use the windows screen driver or will NVDA take care of
> that?
>
> NVDA will take care of it when it's in control, but brltty will probably
> work
> better on its own when in a console window. For that, yes, you do need to
> be
> using the Windows screen driver.
>
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