[BRLTTY] Key bindings for the HandyTech products

[Sébastien Hinderer]

Dear all,

This message is addressed to Mario and all the users of the Active Star
40 and perhaps also other HandyTech products.

I would like to discuss the binding of the left triple action key. Its
lower part is currently bound to cursor down, while its upper part is
currently bound to cursor up.

I never used these bindings and recently changed them. I bound the lower
part to full window right and the upper part to full window left. That
may sound counterintuitive and may seem more intuitive to do the binding
the other way around, but my idea was to be as close as possible to
what one is doing when reading printed braille. When one is doing that,
at some point the right hand continues to read on its own while the left
one returns to the beginning of the line and goes to the following one,
so that the right hand knows where to go when reading is finished.

With this bindings, I find the load of my two hands more balanced. It's
also convenient when the display is not completely filled to not have to
go to the triple action key on the right to go to the next braille
window. I realise I could do it with the space keys, too, but I don't
find this very convenient.

So my question is: what do other users of this input table think about
this suggestion? Do you find it odd and think I should just keep it for
myself, or do you like it and find it worth including?

For those who would like to try, I am attaching the updated version of
rockers.kti I am using.

To use it, just install it under /etc/xdg/brltty/rockers.kti and restart
brltty, it will load the alternative version of the table rather than
the default one.

Best wishes,

Sébastien.
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# Key subtable for HandyTech rocker keys

bind LeftRockerTop FWINLT
bind LeftRockerBottom FWINRT
bind RightRockerTop LNUP
bind RightRockerBottom LNDN
bind LeftRockerTop+LeftRockerBottom FWINLT
bind RightRockerTop+RightRockerBottom FWINRT
bind LeftRockerTop+LeftRockerBottom+RightRockerTop+RightRockerBottom HOME
bind LeftRockerTop+LeftRockerBottom+B3 HOME
bind RightRockerTop+RightRockerBottom+B6 HOME
bind RightRockerTop+RightRockerBottom+LeftRockerTop TOP_LEFT
bind RightRockerTop+RightRockerBottom+B5 TOP_LEFT
bind LeftRockerTop+B3 TOP_LEFT
bind RightRockerTop+RightRockerBottom+LeftRockerBottom BOT_LEFT
bind RightRockerTop+RightRockerBottom+B7 BOT_LEFT
bind LeftRockerBottom+B3 BOT_LEFT
bind LeftRockerTop+LeftRockerBottom+RightRockerTop TOP
bind LeftRockerTop+LeftRockerBottom+B4 TOP
bind RightRockerTop+B6 TOP
bind LeftRockerTop+LeftRockerBottom+RightRockerBottom BOT
bind LeftRockerTop+LeftRockerBottom+B2 BOT
bind RightRockerBottom+B6 BOT
bind LeftRockerTop+RightRockerTop PRDIFLN
bind LeftRockerTop+B4 PRDIFLN
bind RightRockerTop+B5 PRDIFLN
bind LeftRockerTop+RightRockerBottom NXDIFLN
bind LeftRockerTop+B2 NXDIFLN
bind RightRockerBottom+B5 NXDIFLN
bind LeftRockerBottom+RightRockerTop ATTRUP
bind LeftRockerBottom+B4 ATTRUP
bind RightRockerTop+B7 ATTRUP
bind LeftRockerBottom+RightRockerBottom ATTRDN
bind LeftRockerBottom+B2 ATTRDN
bind RightRockerBottom+B7 ATTRDN

bind LeftRockerTop+RoutingKey CLIP_NEW
bind LeftRockerTop+LeftRockerBottom+RoutingKey KEY_FUNCTION
bind LeftRockerBottom+RoutingKey CLIP_ADD
bind RightRockerTop+RoutingKey COPY_LINE
bind RightRockerTop+RightRockerBottom+RoutingKey SWITCHVT
bind RightRockerBottom+RoutingKey COPY_RECT


context menu
bind RightRockerTop MENU_PREV_ITEM
bind RightRockerBottom MENU_NEXT_ITEM
bind LeftRockerTop MENU_PREV_SETTING
bind LeftRockerBottom MENU_NEXT_SETTING