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Ok. I was the other person whose this way has been suggested. My problems are concerning brlaille lite millemmium 40. I did not tried yet for the same reason reported below. Let us know regards Gianluca Simone Dal Maso ha scritto: Hi, I saved this message and I want to try in the weekend. The fact is that I want to use BRLTTY in conjunction with the development version of NVDA. The fact is that it needs brlapi, and I don't know if using cygwin I can call BRLAPI as if I use the compiled windows version. Thanks again and I let you know my tests.----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY." <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] brltty windows version and braillenoteHere's some free advice. It might be worth every penny of it... <grin> Someone else reported that the BrailleNote currently doesn't work in the Windows version and that one of the developers indicated a quick solution is not feasible at this time. However, you can get a working system quite easily. It's not very elegant and takes up a bit more disk space, but it does work. Note that it will take effect only for console applications - i.e., the DOS box and programs that run in it. What you do is to install a minimal Cygwin system and include Accessibility. This will get you a working brltty which does include the BrailleNote. It's not hard, but there are several steps you need to take. To do it: 1. Go to www.cygwin.com and click on the "Install Cygwin now" link. This will download a program called setup.exe. 2. Run this program. Take all the defaults until you're presented with a list of mirrors. Choose one or more mirrors that are near you. 3. On the next screen your PC cursor is on a checkbox that says `Curr'. You must now use your mouse emulator. Starting from this checkbox, go down 3 lines or so to a line that begins: "Accessibility Default". Left click on the word Default and it will change to Install. Then press Enter, wait for things to download, and press Enter on the Finish button. 4. In the Windows Run dialog, type: c:\cygwin\bin\brltty.exe -b bn -d serial:ttyS0 -<other options as needed> Note that this command is case sensitive, so be sure to use the uppercase S as indicated above. This will probably fail with some missing routines. Find their location(s) and add them to the Windows Path variable. Do this repeatedly until you can run brltty from the Run dialog. Now any time you run a console application you'll have brltty controlling the braille device. You may have to convince your Windows screen reader to get out of the way (in Jaws, for example, enable Braille Sleep Mode for any applications where you want brltty to work). I suggested this to someone before but never heard anything. I don't know whether they tried it or whether they had any unforeseen problems. Please let us know how it works for you so I don't keep burdening the list, especially if it doesn't work (but I think it will). Good luck, -- Lee Maschmeyer Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty_______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty |
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