Re: nfbtrans conversion

  • From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:13:06 -0400

I don't know about ctrl-shift-o. I just went and found a brf file (an
unpacked Bookshare book, as it happens) and hit enter on it. I
received a .txt file of the same name opened in edSharp. The only
problem I see right now is that each line is only a few words long,
even when I maximize the window. Still, at least brf files are
readable on win64. Thanks!

On 7/2/11, Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Excellent work Tyler!
>
> I just posted a new EdSharp distribution with the 32-bit version of
> NFBTrans that Tyler has built.  Would one or more others using Win64
> please test and confirm that Control+Shift+O will now convert a .brf
> file to text?
>
> To anyone who does not already have EdSharp but may be interested in
> trying it, the installer is available at
>
> http://EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
>
> Jamal
>
> On 7/2/2011 6:38 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>> Jamal:
>> Thanks for that. I threw nfbtrans.exe into the edsharp directory under
>> nfbtrans and off it went. Converted perfectly.
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10204868/NFBTR774.7z
>> There is the link for the new archive. I included the new executable, as
>> well as the sln and vcproj files that visual studio will need to build
>> the single nfbtrans.c.
>> On 7/2/2011 4:28 PM, Jamal Mazrui wrote:
>>> Attached is a free braille file from National Braille Press,
>>> founding.brf, containing the Declaration of Independence and related
>>> material. Hope it can be used for testing.
>>>
>>> Jamal
>>>
>>> On 7/2/2011 6:20 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>>>> It looks like I have this done a lot sooner. Do I just need to dump this
>>>> in my edsharp directory to test? will someone send me a .brf file that I
>>>> can try this out with to see if it does, indeed work?
>>>> There were some asm functions (which were declared in the asm file),
>>>> called sound, nosound and delay. I wasn't really sure what those did, so
>>>> I just wrote c replacements. sound plays the beep (at a duration of 250
>>>> ms), nosound toggles a flag that is checked for beeps, and delay just
>>>> calls sleep. I have a ton of warnings, but I'm aiming for this to just
>>>> work on a 64-bit system.
>>>> On 7/2/2011 3:25 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>>>>> Hello all:
>>>>> Since this isn't something that is a huge issue to keep up to date
>>>>> beyond it just working on 64-bit systems, I removed the secure
>>>>> warnings, and started the conversions. There aren't to many issues I
>>>>> don't think so far, except the fact that a lot of the function calls
>>>>> (utime etc) are no longer in windows. I'm yanking the code with older
>>>>> functions and writing drop-in replacements to do exactly (hopefully)
>>>>> what the old functions do, so hopefully it will work with minimal
>>>>> modifications. I'll post later with progress and/or a working copy
>>>>> sometime this week.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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