So, do you just use this on an untaken serial port and tell VMWare to also use that serial port so they would end up virtually connected? I thought there was one called echo talk or something using the JFW API on the Windows side and simulating an echo synth to whatever is connected to that port. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane W" <shane-speakup@xxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:45 AM Subject: Re: [OT] emulating a hardware synth > Hi, > > Fyi, just put a new version of the Windows Acntsa emulator > up: > <http://www.csy.ca/~shane/winaccent.zip> > > This one gets the timeouts right so now works with Speakup > either under an Vmware session or via a remote serial > connection. > > Question to the speakup devs, why does the ACNTSA driver > use a timeout of 0.16 seconds and rely on that to start > transmitting even during keyboard io where you want to > transmit as soon as a key is pressed, Ie with <esc>=F in > the init string and 0x0d when a key is pressed. That way > there is no 0.14 second delay after a key is pressed before > the letter is read allowed? > > Shane > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
