speakup and the mouse

speakup and the mouse

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Here is an interesting and unexpected fact that is close to
useless for most of us, but very informative.

I can use the speakup cut and paste feature to "mark" and "cut" a
section of the screen display, and then "paste" that text by
pressing my right mouse button. How about that?

Why, you ask, am I using a mouse? Some weeks ago I configured X
on my system (without any access tools (yet)) and during that
process I installed GPM, the General Purpose Mouse driver, to
check it for compatibility with various window managers etcetera.
Frankly I forgot it was installed, and recently quite by accident
while tidyhing up my desk I hit the right mouse button, which
normally inserts captured text at the cursor, and lo and behold
the most recent text captured by speakup was inserted. I have
checked it several times and it works reliably.

I assume what that means is that speakup and GPM share a capture
buffer, which makes a lot of sense.

Chuck


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Re: speakup and the mouse

[Kirk Reiser]

That's exactly correct.  We used a couple of functions from
selection.c to produce the cut and paste feature.  We had to modify
those functions for speakup however, I don't know if anyone remembers
but we were having problems with the system occasionally locking up.
It had to do with how the memory allocation was called which was
different for speakup than for the standard mouse.

  Kirk

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Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
e-mail: kirk@braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
phone: (519) 661-3061

Re: speakup and the mouse

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  also, if you press the left mouse button you will replace the
contents of the speakup buffer with the character under the mouse.

          Kenny

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:31:52AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Here is an interesting and unexpected fact that is close to
> useless for most of us, but very informative.
> 
> I can use the speakup cut and paste feature to "mark" and "cut" a
> section of the screen display, and then "paste" that text by
> pressing my right mouse button. How about that?
> 
> Why, you ask, am I using a mouse? Some weeks ago I configured X
> on my system (without any access tools (yet)) and during that
> process I installed GPM, the General Purpose Mouse driver, to
> check it for compatibility with various window managers etcetera.
> Frankly I forgot it was installed, and recently quite by accident
> while tidyhing up my desk I hit the right mouse button, which
> normally inserts captured text at the cursor, and lo and behold
> the most recent text captured by speakup was inserted. I have
> checked it several times and it works reliably.
> 
> I assume what that means is that speakup and GPM share a capture
> buffer, which makes a lot of sense.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> -- 
> The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (85% of Full)
> So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
> 
> 
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