Re: [orca-list] byPass function in Orca

[Jonathan Chacón <jonathan chacon telefonica net>]

-----Mensaje original-----
De: William Walker Sun COM [mailto:William Walker Sun COM] 
Enviado el: viernes, 23 de mayo de 2008 15:03
Para: Jonathan Chacón
CC: orca-list gnome org
Asunto: Re: [orca-list] byPass function in Orca

> Hi Jonathan:

Hello Willie

> Nice to hear from you again and see you on the list.

So do I :-) I hope to be more active on the list now after my wedding.
I am free now at last! No more issues about wedding and no heavy job issues 

My TTS converter is on developping and I hope to finish it about june or
july...
It'll only support espeak in 1.0 version.... More in the future :-)

> If I understand you correctly, you're looking for a way to allow Orca
keyboard commands to be sent directly to an >application instead of having
Orca consume/interpret them.

Not exactly. Imagine a flag variable... If it is off, orca manages all
keystrokes. If the flag is active, orca doesn't manage the keystroke... 
Like this diagram:

1. user types leter P, for example
2. orca keyboard manager catches the keystroke value... is it an orca
command? 
--- [yes, it is an orca command] -- go to point 3.
-- [no, it is not] orca keyboard manager sends the keystroke to the active
application with the focus
3. is byPass flag active?
-- [yes] orca keyboard manager sends the keystroke to the active application
with the focus
-- [no] Orca executes the orca command

> Currently, there's no such thing in Orca.  We could potentially create some
sort of model to turn the keyboard commands >on/off, however, and this might
also address another issue brought up on the list (i.e., allow the keypad
keys to be used >for numeric data entry at one time, but flat review for
another).

I will send an e-mail to the list tomorrow or later talking about this
issue, problems with special keyboards and one-handed person to improve
accessibility level of orca for future devices like new mobile phones with
linux, PDAs and UMPCs
I think we have to improve more things thinking about many diferent users
profiles and devices....
I'd like to use my mobile phone with linux, my PDA with ubuntu, my desktop
or laptop with last version of ubuntu... Etc... And all of them with Orca.


Well, now I have to help my wife with the domestic chores :-) I hope not to
burn anything in the kitchen.

Regards
        Jonathan Chacón