Brandon, I assume you have looked at the Java bindings for charToDots and dotsToChar. The tableList should be the name of the table you are using. inbuf is supposed to be an array of bytes containing the low-order 8 bits of characters. This is ASCII Braille. outbuf is supposed to contain the low-order 8 bits of the dot patterns generated by liblouis. The problem may be in the contents of your inbug. If you press multiple keys at once I would guess that the result would be multiple characters, not a single character that could be converted to a dot pattern. Hope this helps, John On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:49:26AM -0500, Brandon Roller wrote: > I am working on 6 key entry in the braille view of BB. I am trying to call > charToDots, but I don't seem to be getting back anything useful. What > exactly am I supposed to be pass as the tableList? What is being put in > the out buffer? -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities