Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android Tablet

2016-08-07 Thread Henk Abma
Op 6-8-2016 om 18:21 schreef Rob: Dave Mielke wrote: What happens on the Samsung when you're on a screen that isn't the launcher? All the apps seem to read well except the home screen. I don't spend enough time on the home screen for it to be much of a problem. However, if braille were my

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android Tablet

2016-08-06 Thread Rob
Dave Mielke wrote: > What happens on the Samsung when you're on a screen that isn't the launcher? All the apps seem to read well except the home screen. I don't spend enough time on the home screen for it to be much of a problem. However, if braille were my only means of interacting with the ph

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android Tablet

2016-08-06 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Rob on 2016/08/03 at 17:34 -0500] >When on the home screen in the Galaxy, BRLTTY only says "Quick notifications" >or "Recent Apps Back Home" no matter how muc you swipe around the screen or >use navigation commands on the braille keyboard. That was a problem when KitKcat first

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android Tablet

2016-08-03 Thread mattias
as a allways say use brailleback instead brltty are really crap on android Den 2016-08-04 kl. 00:34, skrev Rob: Well this is interesting. Today I picked up an RCA Voyager Pro tablet. Just something to play around with. I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 phone as well. My portable display is a Braill

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2016-04-28 Thread Shérab
Thanks a lot, Mario, for the details you have provided! Shérab. ___ 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

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2016-04-27 Thread Mario Lang
Shérab writes: > So far I never really studied what BRLTTY can do under Android, ecause I > supposed (apparently wrongly) that it just gave access to a terminal or > something like that. > > I am now realising that BRLTTY seems to be able to do much more! Could > someone briefly explain what it c

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2016-04-27 Thread Devin Prater
If y'all need anyone to test VarioUltra support, if that's not already supported, I could do that. I have a Vinux VM, or a Mac if someone can help me compile it. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 27, 2016, at 6:36 AM, Shérab wrote: > > Hello, > > Sorry to jump in the discussion in a perhaps a bit

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2016-04-27 Thread Shérab
Hello, Sorry to jump in the discussion in a perhaps a bit rude way. So far I never really studied what BRLTTY can do under Android, ecause I supposed (apparently wrongly) that it just gave access to a terminal or something like that. I am now realising that BRLTTY seems to be able to do much mor

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2016-04-27 Thread mattias
not sure Den 2016-04-27 kl. 12:24, skrev Dave Mielke: [quoted lines by mattias on 2016/04/27 at 12:16 +0200] i think i can take a example try to run aqua mail with talkback and brltty active brltty dont follow focus but brailleback do So are these problems only occurring when using certain a

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2016-04-27 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by mattias on 2016/04/27 at 12:16 +0200] >i think i can take a example >try to run aqua mail with talkback and brltty active >brltty dont follow focus >but brailleback do So are these problems only occurring when using certain apps or are they general problems? -- Dave Mielke

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2016-04-27 Thread mattias
i think i can take a example try to run aqua mail with talkback and brltty active brltty dont follow focus but brailleback do Den 2016-04-27 kl. 12:12, skrev Dave Mielke: [quoted lines by mattias on 2016/04/27 at 12:08 +0200] tryed on a transformer 103c with lolipop 5.0 Are there any other pe

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-13 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi: On 3 December 2015 at 22:55, Øyvind Lode wrote: > On 3 December 2015 at 19:14, Dave Mielke wrote: >> Got it. Yes, you shouldn't need to do that. >> >> Have you gone to the Bluetooth screen and formally paired your braille >> device? > Yes. My Brailliant shows up as a connected/paired device

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-06 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Øyvind Lode on 2015/12/04 at 08:42 +0100] >> Are you comfortable with building brltty's development code for yourself > >Maybe :) >I have never tried building brltty from sources. >I imagine that a lot of work is required to set up the development environment. >Especially the Andr

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-04 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke writes: > [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2015/12/03 at 21:40 +0100] > >>alternatively, we could also scroll horizontally a few characters >>less if necessary, and treat the last cells differently, probably >>masking them away. > > Should FWINRT keep moving forward until the next nonbl

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Øyvind Lode
On 3 December 2015 at 23:27, Dave Mielke wrote: > We'll implement it. It's just that I think it's too close to the desired > release date (around December 15) for 5.3 to do it immediately. > > Are you comfortable with building brltty's development code for yourself Maybe :) I have never tried bui

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2015/12/03 at 21:40 +0100] >alternatively, we could also scroll horizontally a few characters >less if necessary, and treat the last cells differently, probably >masking them away. Should FWINRT keep moving forward until the next nonblank character is in the leftmo

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Øyvind Lode on 2015/12/03 at 22:57 +0100] >I'm using NVDA and I like the way NVDA handles this. >NVDA has an option called "Avoid splitting words if possible" under >Braille settings which is checked by default. >Works great! We'll implement it. It's just that I think it's too cl

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Øyvind Lode
I'm using NVDA and I like the way NVDA handles this. NVDA has an option called "Avoid splitting words if possible" under Braille settings which is checked by default. Works great! On 3 December 2015 at 21:40, Mario Lang wrote: > Dave Mielke writes: > >> [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2015/12/03

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Øyvind Lode
On 3 December 2015 at 19:14, Dave Mielke wrote: > Got it. Yes, you shouldn't need to do that. > > Have you gone to the Bluetooth screen and formally paired your braille device? Yes. My Brailliant shows up as a connected/paired device under BT settings. > > If you have, then what you're describing

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke writes: > [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2015/12/03 at 19:41 +0100] > >>While I am personally unlikely to use this feature, I know that it is >>being offered in JAWS at least. In fact, I remember having to turn it >>off, because they had it enabled as default for new installations. >

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2015/12/03 at 19:41 +0100] >While I am personally unlikely to use this feature, I know that it is >being offered in JAWS at least. In fact, I remember having to turn it >off, because they had it enabled as default for new installations. >Come to think of it, I seem

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Mario Lang
Dave Mielke writes: > [quoted lines by Øyvind Lode on 2015/12/02 at 12:21 +0100] > >>* BRLTTY is splitting words. >>I need to pan my device to read the rest of a word because it's split. >>Also annoying. > > That's how brltty works when in eight-dot braille mode. This is so that as > much > as

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Øyvind Lode on 2015/12/03 at 18:20 +0100] >I'm not talking about the PIN to unlock my device. >I'm talking about the bluetooth pairing code. My misunderstanding. >I have to enter the BT pairing code every single time I unlock my screen and >brltty tries to connect to my device.

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-03 Thread Øyvind Lode
Hi: On 3 December 2015 at 04:15, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Øyvind Lode on 2015/12/02 at 12:21 +0100] > >>* Why must one enter pin code every time one unlocks the device to be >>able to use the braille display? >>This is very annoying. > > Yes, it would be. You'll need to go into Andro

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2015-12-02 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Øyvind Lode on 2015/12/02 at 12:21 +0100] >* Why must one enter pin code every time one unlocks the device to be >able to use the braille display? >This is very annoying. Yes, it would be. You'll need to go into Android's security settings and disable the PIN. Alternatively, you

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-05 Thread Henk Abma
Dave Mielke schreef op 3/5/2014 6:13 PM: [quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/05 at 14:10 +0100] 1. tunr on fthe F40-new. 2. unlock phone (brltty started correctly) 3. Goto brltty->settings->manage devices->remove device, so I could recreate it and log the connection. 4. When the device was re

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-05 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/05 at 14:10 +0100] >1. tunr on fthe F40-new. >2. unlock phone (brltty started correctly) >3. Goto brltty->settings->manage devices->remove device, so I could >recreate it and log the connection. >4. When the device was removed, BRLTTY kept displaying info on t

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-05 Thread Henk Abma
Hello Dave, I would have liked to post some logs, however the actions of brltty are not fully predictable, at least not to me, so here are the speps I took: 1. tunr on fthe F40-new. 2. unlock phone (brltty started correctly) 3. Goto brltty->settings->manage devices->remove device, so I could

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/04 at 21:35 +0100] >when I first performed the 'add device' option, I only changed the >name for the display and left the rest unchanged. When this didn't >workk, I changed the driver from auto-detect to Freedom Scientific. > >This was for the new Focus 40. Fo

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-04 Thread Henk Abma
Hello Dave, I will redo the tests with cleared logs. Before today I never checked them, and there is only 7 hours worth of history in them. With kind regards, Henk. Dave Mielke schreef op 3/4/2014 9:21 PM: [quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/04 at 21:04 +0100] I have some log date (abou

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-04 Thread Henk Abma
Hello Dave, when I first performed the 'add device' option, I only changed the name for the display and left the rest unchanged. When this didn't workk, I changed the driver from auto-detect to Freedom Scientific. This was for the new Focus 40. For the classic Focus 40 I could leave the driv

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/04 at 21:04 +0100] >I have some log date (about 293000 characters0. What is the best way >to deliver this to you? copying it into this message doesn't seem >like a good idea to me. If you aren't concerned about the possibility of private data being in the log

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-04 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/04 at 13:36 +0100] >It only took me some time to figure out that auto-detecting the >Freedom Scientific driver didn't work, so I had to set it manually in >the 'add device' part of settings. What did you do to try to autodetect the device? -- Dave Mielke

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-04 Thread Henk Abma
Hello Dave, I have some log date (about 293000 characters0. What is the best way to deliver this to you? copying it into this message doesn't seem like a good idea to me. As said this afternoon, I connected a new focus 40 and managed to get it working with brltty. When I connected my classic

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-04 Thread Henk Abma
On 3/4/2014 4:32 AM, Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/02 at 23:52 +0100] Now my question: I am trying brltty on a Nexus 5 and am having no luck getting it connected or even set up. As soon as I press 'select device'and try to check my display (Freedom scientific focus 4

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-04 Thread Henk Abma
On 3/4/2014 4:32 AM, Dave Mielke wrote: [quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/02 at 23:52 +0100] Now my question: I am trying brltty on a Nexus 5 and am having no luck getting it connected or even set up. As soon as I press 'select device'and try to check my display (Freedom scientific focus 4

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY on Android

2014-03-03 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Henk Abma on 2014/03/02 at 23:52 +0100] >Now my question: I am trying brltty on a Nexus 5 and am having no >luck getting it connected or even set up. As soon as I press 'select >device'and try to check my display (Freedom scientific focus 40 blue >classic), brltty stops and the ch