Hi, I'm just hacking my braille connect to try and maximize the controller options and make it more comfortable for me to use as a full braille controller.
I want it to emulate my computer. For example, I have reset the joystick on the bc32 so that it performs the functions of the up down left and right arrow keys, as opposed to the standard move lest right up and down. Now, what I would appreciate and find most helpful is if I could have a new custom key dialog box added to the custom menu of the key assignments. I'm not really sure what to call this great dialog box, since custom is already taken by the menu, but it would work like this. You input a key on the key board, the up arrow for example. Then you have checkboxes for each of the command, option, control, and fn keys. You check the appropriate combination of modifier keys. I want command up arrow assigned to space+d1+d2+d3 for example. Command up arrow and command down arrow are the standard mac OS keyboard shortcuts to take me to the top and bottom of a text area such as this edit box where I am typing a message. I'm just typing along, not interacting or any of that nonsense and if I want to read what I've written from the top I can press command up arrow to go to the beginning of what I've just typed, and then I can either read line by line with the arrows, Or I can read on the display. So, I like command up arrow and command down arrow, and I just want to tell my braille controller that when I press space+d1+d2+d3, or space+d4+d5+d6, it means do that thing. I feel the same way about option up and down arrow, option left and right arrow, and control left and right arrow. Or how about tab, command tab, shift tab and command shift tab. I have fiddled with a lot of navigation key assignments that should emulate what I want, but the fact of the matter is, they all rely on interacting with each and every object in order to work effectively. I wouldn't normally interact with things more than %10 or %15 of the time, mostly scroll areas or html frames or some issues involving group mode on the web. Interacting with every single item on the screen to make it work defeats the power and purpose of interacting and so I only do when it's called for. In braille display world, I currently have to interact with every object I am working on to make it behave which is obnoxious and could be completely avoidable by allowing a braille controller to more closely emulate the computer. best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, One on one access technology support and training over the phone or in person, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
