[BRLTTY] Beta build for brltty on Windows.

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Pawel Loba on 2022/12/19 at 19:15 -0500]

>As soon as I switch to another window I am getting message on my Braille
>display something like 'ForeignGroup Window' or similar message.

I'm not a Windows user so I'm going to offer a suggestion. Remember, I'm just guessing.

The Windows (wn) screen driver has two parameters - root= and followFocus=. Both accept yes and no as operands. The defaults are root=no and followFocus=yes. You could try experimenting with different combinations of these parameters. I no longer remember exactly what they do but could look through the code if you'd like.

You can alter the parameter values from within brltty.conf with lines like these:

   screen-parameters wn:root=yes
   screen-parameters wn:followFocus=no

Yes, you can specify them both. Also, you'll need to restart brltty after making changes like these. You can check brltty.log to verify what the actual parameter settings are by looking for "Screen Parameter" lines.

>My unit stops working as soon as I close CMD terminal 

Yes, that's by design. A couple of lines that actually say this should appear just before brltty is started.

>or try to use any app on my computer..

Does brltty stop or is it just that the display isn't being updated? I'm hoping it's the latter and is simply because, with the current parameter settings, it's simply because you aren't on a console window.

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