Touchpad is like a mouse, and a mouse generates x-y coordinates, generally only useful on GUI, and although there is console mouse text selection with gpm driver, I don't think it is really practical as a means to control speech. Not to say it's not possible, it certainly could be done with a special driver, but I think it would be more annoying than useful to use. I have thought about other devices though like joysticks and navigation type switches, I think those have potential for this kind of thing. With a mouse or touchpad a driver could be written that simply determines left, right, up, down, and clicks, and does something uselful, but the modality of such devices doesn't fit well with the task. -- Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:48 PM Subject: speakup and touchpad questions > On the Dell latitude c-800 laptop I have there's a touchpad on the > keyboard. When I took the machine over to smartco I asked a technician to > tell me if the touchpad was working and he told me it is working because > when I put my finger on it and move my finger around on the touchpad, a > cursor moves matching my finger motions. What we also noticed though was > speakup did not track that cursor and speak as text was traversed. Would > it even be useful to enable speakup with touchpads? > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
