Re: Determining the state of locking modifiers (was Re: orca 2 issues)

["C-DOG" <churst31 verizon net>]

hi will,

 yep, thats exactly what I wanted to know I haven't visited the site 
yet...but will get it compile it and run it.

cody
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willie Walker" <William Walker Sun COM>
To: "Orca screen reader developers" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: Determining the state of locking modifiers (was Re: orca 2 
issues)


> Hey Cody:
>
> Locktones is a completely separate package that runs as a background
> process.  Here's a snippet from the web page below:
>
> "The intent of this package is to provide blind computer users with an
> easy way to passively determine the current states of the various
> keyboard locks (caps, insert, num, scroll). It runs as a background
> process which periodically checks the locks, and uses the PC speaker to
> generate sequences of tones which indicate either a change in their
> states (see the --toggle option) or their current states (see the
> --active option)."
>
> Hope this clarifies things,
>
> Will
>
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 08:16 -0400, Cody Hurst wrote:
> > hi will,
> >
> >   I will certainly go take a look at it and get back to you if i find
> > anything, but what exactly does it do. is it a patch for orca?
> >
> > cody
> > On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 10:00 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > Hey Cody:
> > >
> > > (Answering your issues one at a time and re-writing the subject lines 
> > > to
> > > help others that might look through the archives in the future).
> > >
> > > > 2. Not sure if this  is a bug or problem, but certainly an issue. I
> > > > can not tell when the caps lock is on or off. Orca needs to announce
> > > > this, or speak with a higher pitch if it was accidentally hit.
> > >
> > > We're working on a way to do this, but we may need to elaborate on our
> > > algorithm for determining if locking keys are locked.  As an
> > > alternative, Dave Mielke has created an application called "locktones,"
> > > which I think might be a much better solution because it covers both 
> > > the
> > > graphical desktop and character cell consoles:
> > >
> > > http://mielke.cc/packages/locktones.html
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > Will
> > >
> > >
> > >
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