Thanks Gang,
This is a little disappointing, but hopefuly this will be addressed in the
future
Take care
James
PS I think a Braille library by Gareth Kern has been created to work with
Mac OSX and the Alva displays but I can't confirm this.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Braille Displays for Mac OS X
TThere is some possibility that with a usb display or notetaker, you
could compile the "screen" program that would work from the terminal; you
have to crecompile it even though there is such a program already
installed because you have to apply the brltty patch and follow the
instructions for it in the brltty source tree. then you would start
brltty and screen and have somee braille display support at least
theoretically; I don't know if it's actually been tried in macosx. But I
believe this would only give you access to whatever you could access
through the "screen" program not to macosx itself. Brltty for the mac can
be compiled now with some modification and there is usb support and
serial support is being worked on (which is why I need to get my
usbserial to behave!!!) but there is as yet no screen driver to read the
screen so that we can use brltty with macosx. The various oses have to
have a screen driver; don't confuse this with the "screen" program spoken
of above. In other words, for now, unless you want to work on
development, macosx can not be used with braille. At least this is my
understanding of the present situation; I don't pretend to know about
everything that might be in the works.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
