On 11 Feb 2011, at 12:41, Joseph Lee wrote: > What other things have you discovered? How about stability > against 9.0?
I'll have to wait a bit longer to see if it locks up. Certainly though, it's getting less use in the braille terminal, obviously, and that might have something to do with it. I'll say that it is much snappier in other applications, though, like the web (still don't dare to trust it with my mail, just yet, maybe when I've moved my inbox messages elsewhere). For the other stuff, let's see ... Ethernet works by creating a default DHCP connection, which conflicted with my old one. Removed my old one, without effect, but it does mean you can clobber the feature by just removing the default one. And of course if you use a static configuration, it doesn't fall over to another connection when DHCP isn't available - it just puts up the standard Windows CE error. In the QT edition, while in the braille terminal, you get spurious options for the scroll wheel, and no way of knowing about the Function+I keystroke. And as always, the documentation reader is slightly off. There were occasions where turning off braille wouldn't really turn braille off; it would either leave the dots in their current position, or blank the display, but never physically turn it off. And the "Text-to-speech improvements" include pronouncing QT as "Quartz", which means my device is called the BrailleNote Apex Quartz (ah, go on, that can hardly be described a bug). No, IPv6 wasn't there, so I guess it hasn't made it to their radar screens. Just silly little things, nothing serious, except the braille - that is a tragedy. Braille without input is like chocolate without hazel nuts. And brltty was way, way ahead of many screen readers in braille input capability even when HumanWare did not directly support it. The entire input functionality was done using layered commands, press a combination to enter input mode and your braille keystrokes turn into their equivalent characters when typed. Press another key to go into navigational mode. To enter combinations including dots 7 or 8 or both 7 and 8, just press another layered command, and either just the next key, or all subsequent keys, have those dots added. Cheers, Sabahattin ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
