Re: achieving cell phone like keyboard entry through remote

[Justin S. <jus...@gm...>]

Hi Christoph,

I have been thinking about this problem.

What do you think about implementing a new keyword called mode-timeout
in lircrcd, that would basically timeout a mode within the time limit
in configuration file. The granularity of timeout should be in 100
milliseconds.

Thanks,

Justin


On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Christoph Bartelmus<li...@ba...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Justin Smith "jus...@gm..." wrote:
>> I appreciate the response and help you have provided to me. That
>> answers my question.
>>
>> I was not thinking about taking back an event, but rather sending a
>> Bksp and second character.
>>
>> Do you know of any other lirc clients that could help me here?
>
> After a bit of more thinking I came up with this, which will work just
> without the timeout feature:
>
> begin 1
> begin
>        prog = irexec
>        config = echo Bksp
>        button = KEY_1
> end
> begin
>        prog = irexec
>        config = echo B
>        button = KEY_1
>        flags = quit|mode
> end
> end 1
>
> begin 2
> begin
>        prog = irexec
>        config = echo Bksp
>        button = KEY_2
> end
> begin
>        prog = irexec
>        config = echo D
>        button = KEY_2
>        flags = quit|mode
> end
> end 2
>
> begin
>        prog = irexec
>        config = echo A
>        button = KEY_1
>        mode = 1
> end
>
> begin
>        prog = irexec
>        config = echo C
>        button = KEY_2
>        mode = 2
> end
>
> Christoph
>
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