RE: IR keyboard

[Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

I dont envy you the task of working out the Hex codes. One day I might get
round to getting a Pronto myself.

CAT5 Progress..... not much since the meeting although I have requested
some
info from a company who make plastic cases. The cases you saw for the
prototypes are not the ideal shape for the circuitry and are awkward to
machine nicely.

I dont think I will follow Grahams ideas and make them from wood though !!!

I'm a bit pre-occupied at the moment as my wife's car was destroyed by a
dickhead on a Ducati 916 last Friday. Thankfully no-one was hurt and my
daughter wasnt in the car at the time. He was doing between 60-70mph coming
up the outside of traffic in a 30 limit just as my wife pulled away from
the
nursery where she works. He embedded his bike in the nearside headlamp
pushing the chassis and wing almost 9 inches out from the side of the car.
Miraculously he just got up and walked about but I bet he has a good few
bruises. spent all Friday night at the hospital getting Sharon checked out
and most of Saturday arranging for the car to be collected :-((

Keith
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 July 2000 21:23
>
> Thanks Keith.
>
> I knew about the "scan code" operation of the keyboard
> interface, however, I
> was under the impression that the "modifier" keys (IE CTRL,
> SHIFT, ALT,
> etc..) modified the scan code sent from the keyboard itself
> to the keyboard
> controller....
>
> The obvious solution to this problem would be to decode the
> IR data format
> the keyboard uses, so I could type the hex codes straight
> into Prontoedit...
>
> That's not going to be much fun...   :-(
>
> Cheers.
>
> Paul G.
>
> PS: How're the KAT5 units coming?...   ;-)
>
>
>
> >Hi Paul,
> >
> >take a look at http://www.arne.si/~mauricio/Kbdfaq.htm
> >
> >It explains all you need to know about "normal" PC
> keyboards, ie the wired
> >ones.
> >
> >That may explain why you can only learn single key presses....
> >each key sends one code when pressed and another when released.
> >
> >thus CTRL+ALT+A is really
> >CTRL down, ALT down, A down, A up, ALT up, CTRL up.
> >6 seperate actions which get translated into
> >
> >" the A key was pressed whilst CTRL+ALT were also down so I
will do
> >........"
> >rather than just typing "A"
> >
> >It may also explain why you get differing results when
> trying to learn a
> >key.
> >
> >I havent really looked any deeper yet so that is the best
> pointer I can
> >currently give :-)
> >
> >Keith
>
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