Curiocity

[Zachary Kline]

Howdy,
    This is very enlightening.  Gives me a bit of a glimpse at how things 
like this are handled.  I'm quite pleased with Speakup's performance, truth 
be told.Thanks much,
Zack.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kirk Reiser" <kirk at braille.uwo.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Curiocity


> Using the standard text console there are two bytes of information
> stored in video memory for each screen position.  One for the
> character stored and one for the colour and attribute.  The
> colour/attribute consists of background colour and forground colour
> with a couple of bits dedicated to blinking or high intensity and the
> like.  So basically you mask off the info and then use that to point
> in to an array to get the text string for the colours you want to
> say.  You do the same thing with the characters to get the
> pronunciation.
>
>  Kirk
>
> -- 
>
> Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
>
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