On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 02:38:11PM -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
Hi Dan:
Hey Will, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
So, how does orca handle things when a cursor routing button is pressed? Could it be made to simulate the press of the right or left arrow keys, x amount of times depending on what routing button was pressed, and where abouts the cursor is. Like brltty does I think. Being able to do this from within emacs would be really handy.For text objects, Orca depends upon the text object to honor the setCaretOffset method to position the cursor. The terminal is kind of ill-behaved in this regard. One work around might be to modify default.py's setCaretOffset method to find the (x,y) position on the screen and force the mouse to move and the click on that position if it knows it is dealing with an object of ROLE_TERMINAL., Take a look at default.py:setCaretOffset and eventsynthesizer.py:clickCharacter as potential starting points. clickCharacter would need to be modified
This sounds quite complex, but when I do eventually finish reading python documentation, I'll have a look into this.... It's just hard to find time to work on stuff like this, but thanks for the pointers.
2. Would it be possible to impliment functions such as: - cut and paste using the display - Skip blank/identical lines like in brltty - Freeze/don't_follow_cursor functionsPotentially -- are you using the fallback flat review mode or are
What do you mean by "Fallback flat review"?
you navigating using the normal keyboard navigation keys all users would use?
I do use these keys, as well as the ones on the display.
3. Messages that are voiced such as, where am I, "Run" when the run dialog is launched, and other important pop up messages, could these be displayed in braille? Perhaps for a certain amount of seconds before the display would return to standard output, eg. the document that is in focus. Perhaps as a setting that can be adjusted on reading speed, etc.Orca has some support for "flashing" braille messages, and it's currently used for flashing locking modifier state. Take a look in orca.py:keyEcho for a call to braille.displayMessage around line 631 for an example usage.
Oh right, so things like caps lock, yep I saw that, that is good:)
Please do help! We're a very small team and our current focus is
indeed
more on the larger changes happening in GNOME at the moment. So, we're unable to focus on Orca as much as we'd like. A new member of
oh ok
the team would be fantastic.
I'll definitely have to learn python a bit better, but when I am sufficient with it, I will help out where I can. Thanks for your help Dan
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