[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: exposing table searchpath
- From: Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:18:20 +0100
On Thu 21/06/12,08:01, Christian Egli wrote:
> Mesar Hameed <mesar.hameed@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > The situation is as follows:
> > * a person installs liblouis
> > * then installs orca
> >
> > At this point orca picks up the default tables directory.
> >
> > Lets say a person wishes to test new tables, and therefore modifies
> > LOUIS_TABLEPATH
> > At this point orca continues to look at the old (default) tables directory,
> > not the one defined in LOUIS_TABLEPATH.
> > Issue 9 requests for a function to be exposed so that any program that uses
> > liblouis can dynamically and automaticaly pick up any changes to
> > the tablePath.
>
> Why would orca (or any other program) need to know where the tables are?
> Isn't that liblouis' business?
Orca/NVDA/any other program needs to know what tables are available, so that
they can be presented in a nice/user friendly combobox for the
user to select from.
> In other words if a person installs new tables, they modifies the
> LOUIS_TABLEPATH and invokes orca using that env variable then liblouis
> should automatically find this new table. Is this not so?
Same, liblouis will correctly be able to access the new tables, but the user
can not select the his/her choise from the orca interface.
Thanks,
Mesar
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