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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10


On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 09:32:39PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen, le Thu 08 Dec 2011 09:47:45 +0100, a ?crit :
>> Too bad.  In that case, Samuel, can you please have a closer look to
>> see what broke brltty?
>
>The switch to mintty, simply. Brltty uses ReadConsoleOutputCharacter()
>to get the text from consoles, I bet mintty does not implement this.
>Lars thus needs cygwin to be able to run from a standard windows console
>too.
>
>> I have not the faintest idea how to test it
>
>Install brltty, and run
>
>brltty -b xw
>
>When the focus is on a windows console, a window on the top of the
>screen will show up, representing the output that would show up on a
>braille device.
>
>> and how to see if it works or not.
>
>Try to switch to mintty, the window will disappear, because
>ReadConsoleOutputCharacter will stop working.

So, then, don't use mintty with brltty.  If it is an issue, you as the
package maintainer, should provide a way to start brltty from a Windows
console.

cgf

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