[quoted lines by kendell clark on 2016/07/02 at 20:08 -0500] >I think this is why it would be useful for brltty to only read the new >incoming text if it's below a certain length. You wouldn't want whole >screenfulls of new text read out, that would take a while and might not >have anything you want to read.
If the screen reader starts to present the data, then it needs to keep on presenting all of the data. If it suddenly stops after some limit, the user will likely think that something has gone wrong with his system. >It's up to you guys if you add this feature and what you set it to, :-) >but storm is asking for a useful feature. It's either useful because it actually is, or it's perceived to be useful simply because that's how something else has always done it. That's what I'm trying to understand. >Does brltty do this with braille? New text appearing either on the screen if >you're in console mode or in the gui if you're using brlapi? Yes, of course new text appears on the screen. No, however, that brltty automatically jumps to the new text and starts to follow along with it. I guess that's just not how braille users think. We just move the braille display around the screen, even while a command is executing, to read whateever it is that we want to be reading. Normally, cursor movement automatically jumps the braille display back to the current line, but we can disable that feature (cursor tracking) if we need to, as well. As of the most recent release, 5.4, one can almost do what you're describing. There's a new feature in 5.4 called delayed cursor tracking. What it does is delay the automatic movement of the braille display due to cursor movement as long as the cursor movement is entirely outside what's currently on the braille display. If, within the delay period, the cursor goes back to exactly where it originally was, the braille display doesn't move. The intent of this feature is to prevent the braille display from being undesirably, automatically moved due to things like the updating of a status lines. Another practical use of this, however, is to start a command and then move the braille display up one line. Now the braille display will always show the last line of command output until the command completes, at which time the braille display does automatically jump to the new command prompt. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: d...@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.org/ _______________________________________________ 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
