Re: [orca-list] Couple of questions

[Paul Hunt <huntp ukonline co uk>]

Hi,

Re: the second question:

pyatspi has a function for generating keyboard events.

import pyatspi

pyatspi.Registry.GenerateKeyboardEvent(38,None,pyatspi.KEY_PRESSRELEASE)

Will generate an "a" keypress for example (the 38 in the above code is 
the keycode for an "a").

Keycodes exist for all keys including the arrows, enter, tab etc.

I found this with a quick google on "python simulate keypress", I think 
looking at the pyatspi documentation would be a good place to find out more.

Paul


On 14/05/10 16:50, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a couple of questions.
>
> 1. How do I get orca to bind presses of the keys on a Braille display 
> to a function? I notice in Storm's customizations.py script for 
> date/weather/etc that keybindings are added to 
> orca.settings.keyBindingsMap (to the "default" value of the 
> dictionary). I notice that in orca.settings there is also a 
> brailleBindingsMap, so is it the same idea?
> 2. If I want to get orca to emit a keypress, does it have a way of 
> doing this built in or do I need to use something like virtkey 
> (http://launchpad.net/virtkey)?
>
> OK, may be it would be good for me to express what I am trying to do 
> as if there is a better way to do it then someone could actually say.
>
> I want it that I can do certain keyboard actions from my Braille 
> display eg. tab/shift+tab/cursor up and down/etc. My thought was, if I 
> can get orca to emit a keypress then I can map a function I create to 
> a Braille key press. As far as I know orca doesn't have such actions 
> defined internally so that's why I thought simply emit the key press 
> and let gnome/the application pick up the event and perform its action.
>
> Michael Whapples
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