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Conference abbott::teamlinks_windows

Title:TeamLinks for Windows
Notice:Kit and ECO locations: See replies to note 8.o note 8.
Moderator:ORION::chayna.zko.dec.com::tamara::eppesAN
Created:Mon Aug 28 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2238
Total number of notes:9650

2234.0. "PowerBraille and 'non-editable cursors'" by GIDDAY::BACOT () Thu Jun 05 1997 02:50

    
    Hi,
    
    We have a customer that is using a PowerBraille display.
    When reading TeamLinks mail it doesn't display the message.
    Apparently this is because of the cursor in the read message window
    being 'non-editable'.
    
    They can create and send messages but not read incoming mail.
    You are able to display help files as well.  Apparently the problem
    is with these 'non-editable cursor' windows. 
    
    An obvious work around would be to do a reply with text but we were 
    wondering if this would be feasible to make the necessary modifications
    to TeamLinks to allow this type of display to work?  Then again,
    perhaps the folks that design the braille display could make it work
    in these types of windows...
    
    What do you think?
    
    Angela
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2234.1XANADU::cascobay.zko.dec.com::TAMARA::STJEANBob St.JeanThu Jun 05 1997 10:3728
Angela,

Hong Le was here in ZKO2 last week on his way to some Office Server
training in REO.  We had never met him before so it was good that
he came.

While he was here he mentioned this problem.  At the time he didn't
know if it affected the Create Message window but, according to
your base topic, it must be working ok there.  So it's just in the
viewer part of the Read Message window.

Is this TeamLinks 2.7 they are testing this with?

Does this problem happen with TEXT attachments and other attachments
like RTF and Word?  In that version of TL TEXT is displayed by a
Digital produced TEXT viewer.  The other file types are displayed
in the Mastersoft viewer.

Perhaps we can get right people together from the PowerBraille vendor,
Inso/Mastersoft and DEC to figure out how to make it work.  If it
involves "non-editable cursor" windows like you said, and if this
is a common characteristic of certain viewers, then maybe PowerBraille 
needs some information on how to support them.  Inso might know
how to accomplish this with their viewer.

Bob
2234.2some informationGIDDAY::BACOTFri Jun 06 1997 01:3849
    
	
    Hi Bob,
    
    Here is some information we gathered while testing.
    Glenn Casey from the Pathworks group is involved in this as well.
    It may be easier if we can get you a copy of the software we are
    testing with which is the visual display of what appears on the braille
    display.
    
>> So it's just in the viewer part of the Read Message window.
    	
    We have no trouble "seeing" the data (on the simulated braille display)
    in the create message window.  

> Is this TeamLinks 2.7 they are testing this with?
    
    We are using the 2.7 internal use only version with Windows 3.1 
    and PATHWORKS V6.0 using DECnet as the network transport.

> Does this problem happen with TEXT attachments and other attachments
> like RTF and Word?  In that version of TL TEXT is displayed by a
> Digital produced TEXT viewer.  The other file types are displayed
> in the Mastersoft viewer.

    A WPSPlus attachment can be seen in the braille display although we have
    to minimize the Read Message window and then maximize it which was a 
    little strange.  RTF documents that I mail to myself are not viewable
    in the braille display nor are text.  
    We noticed that the cursor in a text document is an insertion bar and on 
    the RTF it is an arrow.  Do you know why these are different?
    
    If I go to the Local Demonstration drawer and sample applications then 
    double click on the WPS+ document it reads the message fine.
	
    If I forward any of these messages to me they are unreadable.
    When you read a message there is a From field which is identified as 
    "Edit Box 1" and is readable by PowerBraille, 
    the subject field is "Edit Box 2" and is  readable, 
    the message field is "Edit Box 3" and doesn't display. 
    All fields are uneditable and the cursor changes to an insertion 
    bar for each field.  What is the difference beteen these fields?

    
    
    	
    Regards, 
    
    Angela