[BRLTTY] brlapi problems with the Canute

Chevelle cstrobel at crosslink.net
Thu Feb 2 09:13:07 EST 2023


     Are you using the BRLTTY 6.5 from December 19?  I thought the 
Python warnings went away with that one.



On 2/1/2023 3:47 PM, Stefan Moisei wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
> thanks for your reply.
> "
> What is telling you this? Is that NVDA, or is that a simple python
> program that you run?"
> "
> nvda. I can't install standalone brlapi due to 3.
> "
> Honestly I haven't followed. What the message seems to be saying is that
> you need the *32bit* version of python.
> "
> right. And that is exactly what I did, I installed python 3.8 and 3.11 
> 32 bit, bbut they are not detected by the installer.
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
> To: "Stefan Moisei" <vortex37 at gmail.com>; "Informal discussion between 
> users and developers of BRLTTY." <brltty at brltty.app>
> Sent: 31.01.2023 23:07:28
> Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] brlapi problems with the Canute
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Stefan Moisei, le sam. 28 janv. 2023 19:42:39 +0000, a ecrit:
>>>  1. I made it work in brltty, it works in the windows console.
>>>  2. I tried the brlapi from NVDA  (I think it is 0.8) after net 
>>> start brlapi and
>>>  got this:
>>>
>>>  brlapi.OperationError: <unprintable OperationError object>
>>>  for get display size, get driver name, write text etc..
>>
>> What is telling you this? Is that NVDA, or is that a simple python
>> program that you run?
>>
>>>  3. I tried a standalone brlapi included in the brltty kit, but it 
>>> refuses to
>>>  install, claming I don't have 32 bit python, even though I tried 
>>> 3.8 and 3.11.
>>>  WWhat version should I use?
>>
>> Honestly I haven't followed. What the message seems to be saying is that
>> you need the *32bit* version of python.
>>
>>>  4.  I also thought of using the java bindings, since I saw in the 
>>> source that
>>>  they exist, but could not find binaries.
>>
>> I have no idea what the proper way is to build java bindings on windows.
>>
>> Samuel
>
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