I've been using Braille exclusively at work for
almost 20 years, the past six months or more with a Braille Window, and
incorporated speech here only recently.
First of all, unless you have a spatial
deficiency (such as exhibited by many people who were premature babies),
structured mode is inappropriate and should be avoided. Besides, there is
a bug in its implementation which causes line mode to be adversely affected
after using structured mode. The default Braille mode should be set to
Line in default.jcf. I have written a script to go directly to line mode
and another to go to speech box mode, so I can avoid structured mode
entirely. I have one to go to structured mode too, but never use
it.
Besides these, I have a BrailleStartThisLine
script to pull the display all the way to the left on the current line,
BrailleStartThisPage to put the display on the top usable line of the display
(that is, the line below the menu bar or toolbar), and BrailleStartNextPage
which pages down the screen before doing the same thing. These sometimes
have to be tailored for specific applications.
I haven't used BrailleMovesActiveCursor since
this was made optional. It is far easier to move the display around and
then use a routing switch to pull the cursor to the Braille when
necessary.
The tracking problem may be the result of your
just learning. The Braille will be routed to the PC cursor only if the
cursor physically moves on the screen. If the cursor is on the bottom line
and you pressed the PC down arrow, the screen will scroll but the cursor will
not move. If the Braille is on some other part of the screen when this
happens, it will stay on that other part. If you want the Braille to be on
the PC cursor, press the PC cursor key.
I have found that the Braille Window works far
better through the serial connection than the parallel. This has been true
on two different machines. So far as I know, no one else has remarked on
this.
Let me know if I can be of any more use or if
you want any of my scripts, which are, of course, exquisite.
:-)
Lee
