On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Dave Mielke wrote: > My plan is to have the driver advertise the display's full width and to behave > as though there are no status cells. The core would then have an option > (similar to the BrailleNote driver's statuscells= parameter) which would > allocate some of the text cells, only from the core's perspective, as status > cells. Then BrlAPI would automatically use all of the cells as text cells, > driver-specific code for this can be removed, displays with no status cells > could have some, etc.
Note that most displays usually have status cells, when they do have them, separate from the main display. So an Alva display with 40 cells and 3 status cells doesn't have a 43 cell contiguous display but actually a 3 cell display and a separate 40 cell display. Nicolas _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
