Re: Orca orca braille key bindings

[Olivier BERT <obert01 mistigri org>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 02:33:19PM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi:
>
> The default.py:getBrailleBindings method binds BrlTTY commands to Orca
> commands, and Orca has some latent support for allowing you to extend
> this from within your own ~/.orca/user-settings.py or
> ~/.orca/orca-customizations.py.
>
> You'll see that there are not a whole lot of BrlTTY bindings in there
> right now.  The main ones allow you to pan the braille display and move
> up and down in flat review mode.  We also try to have the cursor routing
> keys "do the right thing", which will usually means having the effect of
> clicking the left mouse button on the object.
>
> Do you have ideas for specific BrlTTY commands you'd like to see added?

Hi, 
I've not yet thought about others brltty commands to map. 
But, there is something I would like to see implemented, but I don't know
if it's possible. Actually, it would be great if we could type text from
braille displays which have a braille keyboard. 
But, there are two questions :
1) First, regarding BRLAPI, is there a way to get directly characters
 from brlapi_readKey() and not dots ? And if yes, what's the type of 
keycodes ? (X keysyms, ASCII chars etc.)
2) Then, is it possible in orca source code to generate keypressed events
to input characters in the current application or directly in X keyboard
stack ?

Thanks
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Olivier BERT
e-mail: obert01 mistigri org