[brailleblaster] Re: CharToDots
- From: Brandon Roller <brandon.r.roller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:40:12 -0500
I am passing en-us-g2.ctb as the tablelist. The in buffer contains value
32. The resulting out buffer always contains -30, -96, -128. Shouldn't it
contain only a single value?
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:36 PM, John J. Boyer <
john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?
>
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> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
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