Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Mario Lang
Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH writes: > Here is a log excerpt created from running as debug. Seems something went > wrong. Basically the exact same log was already submitted by you in July 2016. Dave analyzed it quite in detail in

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH on 2017/04/05 at 16:05 +0200] I'm hoping that the problem isn't libusb-1.0 truncating the USB configuration descriptor. The output endpoint would probably be the last one, i.e. at the very end of that data, so it's a possibility for

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH
Hello again, I'll see what we can do. I think tomorrow we may get around to doing what you suggested and then I'll send you the file asap. Sorry again for the comment which was so easily misconstrued as demoralizing when it actually referred to a very specific nuance of what we discussed. Kind

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH
Sorry for the misunderstanding. It was relevant all along for many users of NVDA in combination with lots of Braille displays for which no native NVDA drivers existed, so BRLTTY has its firm place on Windows, just not yet with those two devices. The effort of making it work on Windows was never

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH on 2017/04/05 at 13:55 +0200] >I don't use Linux at all so it might take me a while to get to a point where >I'd be of some actual use rather than ask a lot of questions, so I'm >reluctant to go down that road. The thing is that I

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH on 2017/04/05 at 14:18 +0200] >This has suddenly become a relevant platform as we'd like to be supported in >Narrator, as it's a part of the OS. :-( I wish it'd been a relevant platform all along! Oh well ... better later than

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH
Mario you might be right! This has suddenly become a relevant platform as we'd like to be supported in Narrator, as it's a part of the OS. Kind regards, Felix Grützmacher Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards Felix Grützmacher Softwareentwickler Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH Brunnenstraße 10

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Mario Lang
Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH writes: > yes, this is an actual physical Active Braille it's talking to, with > standard firmware. I might be lying, but I believe Felix is the first person to test AB/AS models on Windows. At least I never did,

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH
I don't use Linux at all so it might take me a while to get to a point where I'd be of some actual use rather than ask a lot of questions, so I'm reluctant to go down that road. A sighted colleague of mine is a Linuxer though and might assist me if you could please point me to a distribution you

Re: [BRLTTY] Using liblouis translation in brltty

2017-04-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Vikash Kesharwani on 2017/04/05 at 16:33 +0530] >Any idea how brailleback uses liblouis? No, but I do know how to use liblouis. I look after another piece of software that does use it for both forward and backward translation. I'm even very familiar with liblouis tables, now,

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH on 2017/04/05 at 13:09 +0200] >yes, this is an actual physical Active Braille it's talking to, with >standard firmware. >All Active Braille and Active Star and Actilino devices have this USB >architecture and are using the same

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Felix Grützmacher - Help Tech Elektronik GmbH
Hello, yes, this is an actual physical Active Braille it's talking to, with standard firmware. All Active Braille and Active Star and Actilino devices have this USB architecture and are using the same endpoints. If you need any specifics, feel free to let me know and I'll dive into our firmware

Re: [BRLTTY] Using liblouis translation in brltty

2017-04-05 Thread Vikash Kesharwani
Any idea how brailleback uses liblouis? -- Thanks & Regards, Vikash Kesarwani Lead Engineer - Software Kritikal Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Tel: +91 120 4048600 On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Vikash Kesharwani on 2017/04/04 at 20:48 +0530] > >

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH on 2017/04/05 at 09:21 +0200] >just to be sure: after installing, what would I need to do to make BRLTTY >Braille within a console window that I launch? It should just work. Sébastien is correct that you need the Windows screen

Re: [BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Shérab
Hi Felix, Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH (2017/04/05 09:21 +0200): > Hello, > > just to be sure: after installing, what would I need to do to make BRLTTY > Braille within a console window that I launch? I think you need to run brltty with the appropriate (Windows) screen driver.

[BRLTTY] Testing on Windows

2017-04-05 Thread Felix Grützmacher - Handy Tech Elektronik GmbH
Hello, just to be sure: after installing, what would I need to do to make BRLTTY Braille within a console window that I launch? Here is a log excerpt created from running as debug. Seems something went wrong. 2017-04-05@09:05:11.514 USB: testing device: vendor=1FE4 product=0054