If you do such a switch control panel -- you should include switches that look like function keys 13 through 24.
Some switches are encoded as those function keys that do not appear on the keyboard but are supported by keyboard encoders. Gregg ----------------------- Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D. Director Trace R&D Center Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering and Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin-Madison On Dec 11, 2009, at 7:39 AM, David Colven wrote: > Glad I keeping some marbles. > > I feel what we need - and is part of the ACE contribution to AEGIS - is a > central switch handler (control panel type thing) which reads switches and > that any scanning program can use. The control panel would deal with all the > methods and filtering and pass scan select (and more) to the scanning > programs. This would eliminate the need for multiple set-ups and a lot of > duplicate effort in reading switch inputs. > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Lee [mailto:st...@fullmeasure.co.uk] > Sent: 11 December 2009 13:36 > To: David Colven > Cc: Mats Lundälv; gnome-accessibility-list-boun...@gnome.org; Gnome > Accessibility List > Subject: Re: Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30 > > 2009/12/11 David Colven <col...@ace-centre.org.uk>: >> Sorry if I'm being dum - I am down with flu at the moment - but I don't see >> why a joystick switch inout should not do exactly what the daisy reader >> wants. Window will not react to input from a USB fire button unless it's >> told to, will ot? > > Yes that is exactly correct. AFAIK the foot switch was a USB HID - ie > same as joystick. So the point was that sometimes having events > ignored by the OS can be useful. > > Windows doesn't treat joysticks as first class input devices that all > programs must support (like mouse and keyboard). The same with default > X. I'm not familiar enough with the X switch stuff that Willie > mentioned, but get the impression switch events become first class > events so applications including desktop may react. As I said it was > an "aside". > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
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