Re: [BRLTTY] Android custom Amharic contraction table

2021-06-19 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by abate tsegaye on 2021/06/19 at 13:36 +0300] >I am using the brltty app on an android phone. Where did you install it from? Is it the production or the beta version on Google Play, is it sideloaded from brltty.app, etc? >my primary language is amharic which is the official lang

[BRLTTY] Android custom Amharic contraction table

2021-06-19 Thread abate tsegaye
hi brltty list, I am a nubie for braille displays. I used a braille display for the first time this month. I am using the brltty app on an android phone. as a beginner I have two questions. 1. my primary language is amharic which is the official language of ethiopia. the builtin amharic contractio

Re: [BRLTTY] android: braille star 40 and external keyboard supported?

2021-05-25 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, found the problem :-). The ext keyboard switch has to be disabled. now the phone does something that I could not understand. Some keys like alt ctrl are not working. I am not sure if that must be configured somewhere but I.ll do more testing. Regards Halim ___

[BRLTTY] android: braille star 40 and external keyboard supported?

2021-05-24 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, these day I connected my braillestar 40 to my android phone. Is the external keyboard of the braillestar supported? Brailleinput worksAS EXPECTED :-). My phone runs android 10. Ciao. Halim ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list.

Re: [BRLTTY] Android

2021-04-27 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hello, list! [Dave] > [quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2021/04/18 at 16:33 +0200] > > >After upgrading my Samsung Galaxy S10 to Android 11, a problem did > >reappear: the messages (SMS messages) are not read with BRLTTY. When I open a > >message, focus is on the edit box. Going up from there le

Re: [BRLTTY] Android

2021-04-19 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2021/04/18 at 20:52 +0200] >But my display has only 16 cells / routing keys. What do I do then? Okay: For now, then, the latest apk implements the screen content log as Space + RoutingKey16. Since there are displays wih 14 cells, we'll eventually need a better

Re: [BRLTTY] Android

2021-04-18 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hi, Dave! You wrote: [...] > As before, I'd need you to send me a log of the way the screen looks. The > current way to log the screen content is Space + RoutingKey19. Please do that > and then send me (privately for security) a copy of your system log. But my display has only 16 cells / rout

Re: [BRLTTY] Android

2021-04-18 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Lars Bjørndal on 2021/04/18 at 16:33 +0200] >After upgrading my Samsung Galaxy S10 to Android 11, a problem did >reappear: the messages (SMS messages) are not read with BRLTTY. When I open a >message, focus is on the edit box. Going up from there let me read the >date and time whe

[BRLTTY] Android

2021-04-18 Thread Lars Bjørndal
Hello Dave and all! After upgrading my Samsung Galaxy S10 to Android 11, a problem did reappear: the messages (SMS messages) are not read with BRLTTY. When I open a message, focus is on the edit box. Going up from there let me read the date and time when I last got a message, but not the associate

[BRLTTY] Android updates.

2020-10-16 Thread Dave Mielke
Hi: The latest apk has a number of changes. The letters for three of the global actions have been changed. Quick Settings has been changed from q (dots 12345) to s (dots 234). Device Status has been changed from s (dots 234) to d (dots 145). Window Title has been changed from w (dots 2456) to t (

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: Web page navigation.

2020-09-01 Thread henk.abma
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: BRLTTY Namens Dave Mielke Verzonden: dinsdag 1 september 2020 21:45 Aan: Informal discussion between users and developers of BRLTTY. Onderwerp: Re: [BRLTTY] Android: Web page navigation. [quoted lines by henk.a...@gmail.com on 2020/09/01 at 10:12 +0200

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: Web page navigation.

2020-09-01 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by henk.a...@gmail.com on 2020/09/01 at 10:12 +0200] >For some reason my first attempts in getting this to work failed, subsequent >ones were successful. Do you remember what went wrong the first time? If it was that the new key bindings didn't work then it's probably that the updat

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: Web page navigation.

2020-09-01 Thread henk.abma
using TalkBack's scroll gesture. Anyway it's a large step in the good direction. Thanks for this. With kind regards, Henk. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: BRLTTY Namens Dave Mielke Verzonden: maandag 31 augustus 2020 05:22 Aan: brltty@brltty.app Onderwerp: [BRLTTY] Android

[BRLTTY] Android: Status summary.

2020-08-31 Thread Dave Mielke
One more global action - F15, or Space + Dots78 + Dots 234 (s) - has been added. It briefly shows a status summary. So far, it includes the current time (hour and minute), and the battery percentage. If there are any other values that you'd like then let me know. In case you're correctly rememberi

[BRLTTY] Android: Web page navigation.

2020-08-30 Thread Dave Mielke
Structural web page navigation on Android has now been implemented. From the latest README.Android: Pressing Dots2578 enters Web Page Navigation Mode. When in this mode, a web page, when browsing with Chrome, can be structurally navigated by typing dot combinations on your braille device.

[BRLTTY] Android: querying the window title

2020-08-22 Thread Dave Mielke
The latest Android apk has a new global function - F14, also Space + Dots78 + Dots2456 (w) - which shows the title of the current window. Among other things, therefore, it's a way to find out which app you're currently using. Also, there's more annotation of web pages when using Chrome. For exampl

[BRLTTY] Android: Chords for global actions.

2020-08-09 Thread Dave Mielke
Hi: In addition to using keyboard function key emulations, global actions can now be performed via chords (for braille devices that have a braille keyboard). These chords all include dots 7 and 8. For example, Space + Dots78 + Dots125 (h) goes to the Home screen. Here's the latest global actions t

[BRLTTY] Android: switching windows

2020-08-08 Thread Dave Mielke
This issue came up a long time ago (maybe a year and a half or so), and has finally been implemented. It was when a user was having problems navigating when using the Pure Writer application. If you upgrade to the latest apk you can now switch to a specific screen window. It's done via the global

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: custom data files, BrlAPI and LineageOs

2020-05-29 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Hello, I missed a few messages in the thread, sorry about that. > Then I have another question that is related to BrlAPI: would it be possible > to > run in Android a chroot or a container which runs a regular GNU userland with > BRLTTY (possibly with the "GNU screen" screen driver and with the

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: custom data files, BrlAPI and LineageOs

2020-05-29 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2020/05/29 at 16:29 +0300] >Does it work like the xdg-directory so that I should not use any >subdirectories under brltty/? Yes, exactly. > > It listens on 127.0.0.1:0, i.e. the main BrlAPI port on localhost. > >Yes, I think this is good, but is there some sor

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: custom data files, BrlAPI and LineageOs

2020-05-29 Thread Aura Kelloniemi
Dave Mielke writes: > [quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2020/05/29 at 09:03 +0300] > >Where (which path, with which permissions, etc.) do I store custom text > >tables > >and keymaps? > In the brltty/ folder at the top-level of the external storage device. Since > Android isolates an ap

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: custom data files, BrlAPI and LineageOs

2020-05-29 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Aura Kelloniemi on 2020/05/29 at 09:03 +0300] >Where (which path, with which permissions, etc.) do I store custom text tables >and keymaps? In the brltty/ folder at the top-level of the external storage device. Since Android isolates an app (i.e. brltty) to its own user and grou

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: custom data files, BrlAPI and LineageOs

2020-05-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Aura Kelloniemi, le ven. 29 mai 2020 09:03:33 +0300, a ecrit: > And how does BrlAPI work on Android — specifically, how does it > detect which application should be controlling the display? There would have to be something in Android to tell brltty so, like xbrlapi does by calling brlapi_s

[BRLTTY] Android: custom data files, BrlAPI and LineageOs

2020-05-28 Thread Aura Kelloniemi
Hi I have read through README.Android and it refers to custom data files on mmc and to BrlAPI server. My question is, how do I utilize these on Android? Where (which path, with which permissions, etc.) do I store custom text tables and keymaps? And how does BrlAPI work on Android — specifically,

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: getting to the more optons menu in PureWriter with brltty

2020-01-23 Thread henk.abma
users and developers of BRLTTY. Onderwerp: Re: [BRLTTY] Android: getting to the more optons menu in PureWriter with brltty hello. Is there a way to cycle through the current list of windows on the screen, or the list of potential windows, assuming it's possible to cover one window with

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: getting to the more optons menu in PureWriter with brltty

2020-01-22 Thread Brian Buhrow
indow when you don't want it. And, of course, that lock function would need to be a changable function, so brltty would mostly work as it has in the past. -thanks -Brian On Jan 22, 6:02pm, Dave Mielke wrote: } Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Android: getting to the more optons menu in PureWrit

Re: [BRLTTY] Android: getting to the more optons menu in PureWriter with brltty

2020-01-22 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by henk.a...@gmail.com on 2020/01/08 at 21:40 +0100] >There is a text editor called purewriter which seems reasonably accessible, >at least with TalkBack. I've now installed it. >With BrlTTY something strange happens when trying to access the More Options >menu at the right top of

[BRLTTY] Android: Sending control- or alt characters using BrlTTY keyboard

2020-01-08 Thread henk.abma
Hi, I was hoping it would be possible to use the TalkBack keyboard commands from a braille display. In order to do so, one would for example need to be able to send alt+spacebar (for the global context menu) from a braille display. Functionality like this could also be helpful when trying to use

[BRLTTY] Android: getting to the more optons menu in PureWriter with brltty

2020-01-08 Thread henk.abma
Hello, There is a text editor called purewriter which seems reasonably accessible, at least with TalkBack. With BrlTTY something strange happens when trying to access the More Options menu at the right top of the screen. When activating this menu, the cursor stays in the text area, so you cannot n

[BRLTTY] Log in brltty android

2019-09-11 Thread Carles Borrell i Castells
Carles Borrell i Castells     Hello.     In android, what folder include logs of of brltty? Thanks. ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@brltty.app For general information, go to

[BRLTTY] Problem brltty android Actilino

2019-09-11 Thread Carles Borrell i Castells
Hello. My name is Carles.     In android 8, y add a display Actilino, and  if read in Actilino, but in write, not is possible, when, for example, I write letter "a", it goes to the previous line as if I were doing cor "a", when I write the letter comma, I go to the previous word, and in n

Re: [BRLTTY] (Android) Google play services

2019-07-18 Thread Dave Mielke
[quoted lines by Nath on 2019/07/18 at 12:24 +0200] >Are Google play services needed to run BRLTTY ? No, they aren't necessary. -- I believe the Bible to be the very Word of God: http://Mielke.cc/bible/ Dave Mielke| 2213 Fox Crescent | WebHome: http://Mielke.cc/ EMail: d...@mielke.c

Re: [BRLTTY] (Android) Google play services

2019-07-18 Thread Koen Vranken
On 18/07/19 13:47, Nath wrote: No not a RAM problem. I just want to know if BRLTTY can run on a device on which Google play services are not installed. BRLTTY is it's own separate product and be installed and run without google play. Koen ___ T

Re: [BRLTTY] (Android) Google play services

2019-07-18 Thread Nath
No not a RAM problem. I just want to know if BRLTTY can run on a device on which Google play services are not installed. Nath Le 18 juil. 2019 à 12:35, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel a écrit : Do you want to save RAM by disabling Google Play services? I Am not expert focused on Brltty source code. But M

Re: [BRLTTY] (Android) Google play services

2019-07-18 Thread Mgr. Janusz Chmiel
Do you want to save RAM by disabling Google Play services? I Am not expert focused on Brltty source code. But MR Mielke or MR Tibauld will respond on yours question as quick as possible. Please be aware, that reinstalling google Play services is not very easy, if you remove it by using some root

[BRLTTY] (Android) Google play services

2019-07-18 Thread Nath
Hi, Are Google play services needed to run BRLTTY ? Thx in advance for your response. — Nath ___ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@brltty.app For general information, go to: http://brltty.app