On 04/01/2012 04:51 PM, Richard Miller wrote:
Not even sure this is possible.
I want to create a simple app that can be controlled by an external
bluetooth keyboard. I realize there are no functions to support any
mouse/cursor-related operations, so this would need to be done
differently.
The only idea I have is to use keyboard input. For example...
Let's say the app has a video player in it. I want the keyboard to
control start, pause and stop.
I assume that, if a field was open for input, the user could press a
key on the bluetooth keyboard... say "S"... after which the LC code
would close the onscreen keyboard and start playing the video.
Is there some way, then, for a press of a key on the bluetooth
keyboard to be recognized by the app, without requiring the user to
touch the screen and open a field?
Thanks.
Richard Miller
I'm probably being dead naive here, but, surely, if an OS recognises a
keyboard as a keyboard
Livecode should respond to keyDowns and keyUps from that keyboard . . .
just for example; I use Nostromo Gamepads (not as gamepads) for
repetitive tasks (i.e. transfers
things such as Copy, Paste and so on over to my non-mouse hand); and
both Livecode and Livecode
standalones have no problem recognising the Nostromos as input devices
capable of sending keyDown signals.
The only problem I can foresee is how you are going to get a keyDown/Up
on your Bluetooth
keyboard to close the onscreen keyboard (on some sort of Pad presumably
- you didn't make that clear).
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