Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rob on 2015/11/24 at 19:08 -0600] >Yes, using dot 8 would be better, now that you mention it. That key also has >no function in the menu system, as I recall. Okay. What I did was move all the menu bindings to the dot keys in order to free up all of the regular navigation functi

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: Just to confirm, you mean the Dot7 key? > > If so, do you still want Space for going forward, or maybe using Dot8 to go > forward would be more symmetric. Yes, using dot 8 would be better, now that you mention it. That key also has no function in the menu system, as I recall.

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rob on 2015/11/24 at 18:17 -0600] >For that, you use the backspace key. It has no other function in the menu >system. Just to confirm, you mean the Dot7 key? If so, do you still want Space for going forward, or maybe using Dot8 to go forward would be more symmetric. -- Dave

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > Some items have lots of choices. If you accidentally go one too far then it > can > be a long way around. It's handy, therefore, to also have a way to go > backward. For that, you use the backspace key. It has no other function in the menu system. __

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rob on 2015/11/24 at 17:58 -0600] >Where are the tunable events listed at? Like arrowing beyond the last >line, things like that. The list of events can be found in the alert.h header. >>What about moving backward through the list? >How does that help with the scroll buttons cha

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: 1. Where exactly do you set up the alerts to sound? I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. Where are the tunable events listed at? Like arrowing beyond the last line, things like that. You cycle through the menu options with the backward and forward scroll buttons. B

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert Tunes, smarter braille sense key bindings

2015-11-24 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rob on 2015/11/24 at 17:14 -0600] >1. Where exactly do you set up the alerts to sound? I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. >2. I have two sound cards. Where do I set the PCM device to use? I want to >have the tunes come out of card 1. you can use either the -p command lin

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert tunes.

2014-09-02 Thread Shérab
Hi, The problem of creating categories is that there is always potential insatisfaction,since it binds several things together one may want to distinguish. Since the number of alerts is reasonable, I'm in favour of having one seting per alert rather than introducing categories. Cheers, Shérab. __

Re: [BRLTTY] Alert tunes.

2014-09-01 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi Dave, I like this idea to individualize tunes. For instance, while I need tunes when I press routine cursors, I do not when I make the braille window scroll, or when I use tracking cursor, or so on. So, yes, I think it's a good idea. We could gather tunes in categories, such as: window mo