New component for keyboards and panels.

RotarySMP wrote:

Would you be able to interface an existing matrix key board (like this Maho example)..... and be able to command functions like spindle on CW with button 26

Yes, that is exactly the sort of thing that it is intended for.

Aciera wrote:

Ok, wikipedia just told me that in unicode there are a few different symbols:

There are at least eight different horizontal dash-like characters of varying lengths defined in Unicode

Pasting the URL above into (the very useful) hexed.it:

So something, somewhere, is converting the minus to a unicode hyphen.

It doesn't do it on my machine, which makes it hard to fix.

The toolchain takes the asciidoc-formatted linuxcnc-dev/docs/src/man/man1/sendkeys.1.txt and converts it into a troff manpage.
The manpage is then converted to HTML. (which is why the URL isn't rendered as a link). I imagine that it is the second phase that converts the minus to a hyphen.

cmorley wrote:

You can do this already. panelui was made with that in mind

Embarassingly, I had forgotten about panelui.

What sendkeys can do is either create a system keystroke from a scancode - not covered by panelui or send a keystroke when a HAL bit pin toggles - completely unrelated to panelui.

It is perfectly possible to take a 7i73 scancode into matrix_kb (to trigger bit pins) and to sendkeys (to send keystrokes) and also into panelui (to do all the things that panelui can do)

matrix_kb in matrix scan mode can output a hal-bit per key, and the scancode output can be connected to panelui (to toggle bits _and_ other things) and also to sendkeys to send keycodes.

It might make sense to add keystroke sending to panelui. This would lead to some redundancy, but having a baffling variety of ways to achieve any desired result seems to be the LinuxCNC Way.

Aciera wrote:

This seems to be a known bug with UTF-8 conversions. Maybe the use of hyphen/minus should be avoided altogether.

It's a bit late now, every HAL file out there is full of them.

Aciera wrote:

I know. I meant for URL's, because with a link that doesn't work I automatically presume that the corresponding page got lost.

Something strange is going on.

When I compile and build the docs locally the - comes out correctly,

www.bodgesoc.org/sendkeys.1.html