Glad I keeping some marbles. I feel what we need - and is part of the ACE contribution to AEGIS - is a central switch handler (control panel type thing) which reads switches and that any scanning program can use. The control panel would deal with all the methods and filtering and pass scan select (and more) to the scanning programs. This would eliminate the need for multiple set-ups and a lot of duplicate effort in reading switch inputs.
David -----Original Message----- From: Steve Lee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 11 December 2009 13:36 To: David Colven Cc: Mats Lundälv; [email protected]; Gnome Accessibility List Subject: Re: Ang. Re: Proposal: mouse-only Caribou for GNOME 2.30 2009/12/11 David Colven <[email protected]>: > Sorry if I'm being dum - I am down with flu at the moment - but I don't see > why a joystick switch inout should not do exactly what the daisy reader > wants. Window will not react to input from a USB fire button unless it's > told to, will ot? Yes that is exactly correct. AFAIK the foot switch was a USB HID - ie same as joystick. So the point was that sometimes having events ignored by the OS can be useful. Windows doesn't treat joysticks as first class input devices that all programs must support (like mouse and keyboard). The same with default X. I'm not familiar enough with the X switch stuff that Willie mentioned, but get the impression switch events become first class events so applications including desktop may react. As I said it was an "aside". Steve _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
