On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:48:11PM +0200, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> > Mickael Istria wrote:
> >> /* Devices using KEYS */
> >> if (num_keys > 0 || num_ext_keys > 0)
> >> {
> >> info->desc.caps |= DICAPS_KEYS;
> >> /* a keyboard */
> >> if (num_keys > 20) /* or any other condition that defines a keyboard */
> >> info->desc.type |= DIDTF_KEYBOARD;
> >> else if (num_ext_keys > 0) /* or any other condition that defines a
> >> remote */
> >> info->desc.type |= DIDTF_REMOTE;
> >> else if ( /* eg matches numbers from 0 to 9 */) /* or any other
> >> condition that defines a keypad */
> >> info->desc.type |= DIDTF_KEYPAD; // to define
> >> else
> >> info->desc.type |= DIDTF_UNKNOWN; // to define
> >> }
> >>
> >> Do you think it would be a solution?
> >
> > Yes. But maybe raising the minimum number of ext keys would make
> > front panels keypads instead of remotes.
>
> Actually, "remote" should be an attribute. There could be remote
> keyboards as well. It also means that a "remote control" is classified
> as a remote keypad.
>
> But how to detect whether something is remote?
Do we applications even need to know that? Maybe we can simply make
DIDTF_REMOTE mean a keypad with some optional other keys.
--
Ville Syrjälä
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