Re: [orca-list] No blinking cursor at Orca

["Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>]

I don't know if it should be the responsibility of brlapi or Orca. To me it
seems odd to rely on brlapi to provide it, and potentially it may make
things a bit confusing for a new comer. I mean by this, the orca control
panel is where you specify the highlight markers, but the cursor style would
need to be configured via a different system (using braille display keys),
doesn't seem very consistent. Let's say other braille options were to come
along, where can I expect to find the configuration for that?

On the other hand, I can see the reason for relying on brlapi, but is this
due to me coming from the text console end, and using brltty as a screen to
braille display system rather than just a driver. The main advantage being,
set one cursor style once in brltty, and have it in all apps that use brlapi
for output.

Despite that convenience of set one cursor, I think I would say Orca really
should set the cursor style, after all the user is using Orca, Orca is the 
brltty user.

From
Michael Whapples
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willie Walker" <
William Walker Sun COM
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To: "Simon Bienlein" <
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Cc: "orca-list" <
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] No blinking cursor at Orca
> Hi Simon:
>
> We looked into this a while back, and I think we came to the conclusion
> with the BrlAPI/BrlTTY folks that this needs to be something that needs
> to be fixed in the BrlAPI/BrlTTY side.
>
> We could potentially hack Orca to provide a cursor blink, but I think it
> is something that probably should be done at the BrlAPI/BrlTTY level.
>
> Will
>
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 22:06 +0200, Simon Bienlein wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I configured BrlTTY so that the cursor is being displayed as blinking
> > with the dots 7 and 8. However, when I work under Orca, I do not have
> > this blinking cursor. How can I configure Orca so that I am being
> > displayed a blinking cursor on the braille display here as well?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your hints and answers.
> >
> > Simon
> >
> >
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