A user recently posted that he couldn't take advantage of Alert Tunes because his sound card wasn't working. We suggested that he might want to sue Alert Dots instead. Well, after trying this for myself I found that that feature - implemented a very long time ago - was actually rather deficient. I guess it's kind of like another opinion I have, i.e. that the route planners for a transit system should be forced to use that very same transit system for their own trips. :-)
Anyway, I believe that Alert Dots finally works correctly in the latest development code. I'd very much appreciate it if others would please give this feature a try and let us know how to make it work even better. First, the defaults for both Alert Dots and Alert Messages were wrong. They both defaulted to off but now both correctly default to on. We can't retroactively fix this for anyone who's already saved his/her preferences so I'm asking all users to please change both of those settings - Alert Messages and Alert Dots - to on and then save the change. They're within the Event Alerts submenu. The default is to present the Alert Dots pattern fir 0.4 seconds. The Alert Dots Duration can also be adjusted within the Event Alerts submenu. You'll only see it if Alert Dots itself is on. You'll get the Alert Dots patterns only if Alert Tunes is off. They're as follows: ⠭ (x, dots 1,3,4,6): reject: the key combination was invalid or the command couldn't be executed ⢁ (dots 1,8): copy begin: a copy to the clipboard was started ⡈ (dots 4,7): copy end: a copy to the clipboard has completed ⠶ (low g, dots 2,3,5,6): no change: an adjustment has reached its extreme (e.g. volume can't be increased) ⣛ (dots 1,4,2,5,7,8): toggle on: a feature has been enabled ⣭ (dots 1,4,3,6,7,8) toggle off: a feature has been disabled ⢞ (t + 8, dots 2,3,4,5,8): tracking on: the braille window is tracking the screen cursor ⡞ (t + 7, dots 2,3,4,5,7): tracking off: the braille window isn't tracking the screen cursor ⢋ (f + 8, dots 1,2,4,8): frozen screen: you're currently viewing a frozen image of the screen ⡋ (f + 7, dots 1,2,4,7): live screen: you're currently viewing the live screen ⠋ (f7, dots 1,2,4): frozen screen half-minute reminder ⢎ (dots 4,2,3,8): wrap up: panning left wrapped from the beginning of the current line to the end of the previous one ⡱ (dots 1,5,6,7): wrap down: panning right wrapped from the end of the current line to the beginning of the next one ⣉ (dots 1,4,7,8): skip identical: identical line(s) have been skipped ⣿ (dots 1,4,2,5,3,6,7,8): screen edge: verical navigation hit the top/bottom of the screen without being able to complete -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: [email protected] | Ottawa, Ontario | Twitter: @Dave_Mielke Phone: +1 613 726 0014 | Canada K2A 1H7 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://mielke.cc/xmother.html (Letter from a Feminist ex-Mother) _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://brltty.app/mailman/listinfo/brltty
