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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10


Corinna Vinschen, le Thu 08 Dec 2011 09:47:45 +0100, a écrit :
> 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.

Samuel

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