[BRLTTY] Newbie curious about Inceptor braille display driver.

[tony seth]

Heya there and good afternoon Dave:
Wow, This just keeps getting more and more interesting, and I mean
that in a good way.
Sounds like I got more fun in my future, thank you much indeed!
I'll go do that update right now and let ya know what it does.
Take care...
Cheereo!


On 1/16/20, Dave Mielke <Dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [quoted lines by tony seth on 2020/01/16 at 09:41 -0800]
>
>>The bluetooth still doesn't work unless I set the braille-driver to hm
>> option,
>>although I can now get it to connect. It does not work well in that mode
>>however,
>
> I don't think I'd updated the apk. This has now been done. Please upgrade to
> it
> and try setting the braille driver to ic.
>
> Note that the Bluetooth bindings are fewer, and also different from the USB
> ones. When you use Bluetooth, use Space+r (dots 1235) for help.
>
>>but it works pretty well in usb.
> ...
>>The interesting thing I discovered, was that the commit before this one,
>> the
>>key combinations worked very well, and I could get into and out of help
>>prefereferences and such just fine. With the latest commit, I can still
>> get
>>into and out of help, but not into preferences, as the way to do that seems
>> to
>>have changed. I used spacebar plus r to toggle the preferences menu but
>> now
>>the option seems to be spacebar plus dot8.
>
> Yes, I changed it to Dot7+Dot6 in order to save the letter r for later.
>
>>The problem here is that the Brailleme doesn't have eight dot braille. Not
>>sure how to address this.
>
> That's not a problem. The key to the left of Space is Dot7, and the one to
> the
> right is Dot8. Those dot keys can still be typed even though their
> corresponding dots can't be displayed. Also, the fact that a key may
> officially
> correspsond to a dot has nothing at all to do with how it's used within a
> key
> combinati9on that involves other (non-dot) keys.
>
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