speakup and touchpad questions

[Doug Sutherland]

Touchpad is like a mouse, and a mouse generates x-y coordinates,
generally only useful on GUI, and although there is console mouse
text selection with gpm driver, I don't think it is really practical as
a means to control speech. Not to say it's not possible, it certainly
could be done with a special driver, but I think it would be more
annoying than useful to use. I have thought about other devices
though like joysticks and navigation type switches, I think those
have potential for this kind of thing. With a mouse or touchpad
a driver could be written that simply determines left, right, up,
down, and clicks, and does something uselful, but the modality
of such devices doesn't fit well with the task.

  -- Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:48 PM
Subject: speakup and touchpad questions


> On the Dell latitude c-800 laptop I have there's a touchpad on the
> keyboard.  When I took the machine over to smartco I asked a technician to
> tell me if the touchpad was working and he told me it is working because
> when I put my finger on it and move my finger around on the touchpad, a
> cursor moves matching my finger motions.  What we also noticed though was
> speakup did not track that cursor and speak as text was traversed. Would
> it even be useful to enable speakup with touchpads?
>
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