A few questions about speakup

[Manuel Cortéz]

Hi,


Thank you all for your replies. I have tried the same code using 
libcurses in C and it works properly, however for python I have to 
switch to highlights tracking in speakup to do the job. So I think I'll 
use the C library for making the menus and call stuff from that, or try 
to look a way for changing this preference in speakup every time I'd 
need it.


Btw, I think the function for changing the cursor mode is the 
curs_set(int); (0=invisible, 1=normal mode, 2=high visibility mode).




El 30/11/2016 a las 11:40 p. m., Willem van der Walt escribió:
> One would have to go through its documentation to find how to code it, 
> but look at curses-based programs like lynx which has the 
> --show-cursor option.
> FWIW, Willem
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>> How can curses be told not to lock the cursor?
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Willem van der Walt wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:43:37
>>> From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt at csir.co.za>
>>> Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>>>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>>> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. 
>> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>>> Subject: Re: A few questions about speakup
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> curses by default locks the cursor in one spot on the screen.
>>> Pressing the button second from right in the top row of the numeric 
>>> pad, switches the cursor tracking of speakup.
>>> curses can be told not to lock the cursor.
>>> I am sure you can use python, as I think it is simply, at the end of 
>>> the 
>> day,
>>> use the default curses library on your system.
>>>
>>> I am not running the latest speakup, so might be out of date here, 
>>> but utf-8 does not work when you use cut and paste, although they 
>>> appear correct on the screen.
>>> HTH, Willem
>>>
>>>  On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Manuel Cort?z wrote:
>>>
>>>> hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I just decided to subscribe to this list for talking about speakup. 
>>>> I have been using it some years ago for accessing to the Linux 
>>>> console (my main environment was gnome, though). Now I'd like to 
>>>> ask you a few questions, because I am trying to use only the 
>>>> console and speakup is a very important part of my learning curve.
>>>>
>>>> 1. I have been noticing that there are some programs that are 
>>>> pretty accessible with Speakup, others that require some 
>>>> modifications (config files or speakup modifications) to improve 
>>>> their accessibility with the screen reader, but I'd like to know 
>>>> how much accessible are ncurses based interfaces with speakup? for 
>>>> a small project I am trying to do, I have to create a few menus and 
>>>> some other widgets in the console, so I've decided to use the 
>>>> python programming language and the curses module already included. 
>>>> But for a strange reason, all of the examples > 
>>> that I have found don't work properly with speakup, and I am not sure
>>>> exactly why. I couldn't find any documentation regarding to this. 
>>>> Do i > 
>>> have to do something for improving the curses accessibility from 
>>> Python?
>>>> Do I need to use another programming language?
>>>>
>>>> 2. English is not my first language, so I've installed the 
>>>> speakup-tools package and tried to look for a translation in my 
>>>> language (Spanish) but it is not created yet. So basically I've 
>>>> downloaded the repository at 
>>>> http://linux-speakup.org/speakup-tools.git and started to work in a 
>>>> few improvements and a spanish translation for the speakup 
>>>> messages. Seems > 
>>> it's working properly. I also have changed the speakup_setlocale script
>>>> (I have not added this modification to the script located in the 
>>>> repository, yet) so it list all directories in @pkgdatadir, looks 
>>>> for a file called languagename in every directory and shows a menu 
>>>> with all available languages. If called with -l you can set the 
>>>> language code directly. Is it possible to send changes upstream 
>>>> somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> 3. I am learning russian, and I've noticed that there isn not a 
>>>> russian translation for speakup, it would be OK if we could create 
>>>> a translation for this language? More specifically, do you think 
>>>> speakup will not have issues with the russian characters and their 
>>>> encoding? (I assume it would be UTF-8, but I'd need to test).
>>>>
>>>> thank you in advance for your work in the Linux community.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Manuel.
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