New component for keyboards and panels.

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.8/html/man/man1/sendkeys.1.html

A poor quality video proving that it works:


It can take either 7i73-style scancodes from a 7i73 or from matrix_kb, and can also generate key events from plain bit HAL pins.

Intended for MDI keyboards and GUI interaction. Use to control actual machine movements is very much discouraged.

BeagleBrainz wrote:

Roughly speaking, not yet looked at code, this is "stuffing" scan codes into the OS ?

Not exactly. The HAL component tells the system that it is a USB keyboard, "and here are some key events"

Interesting!
In the man page, this link is not working for me though:
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi−bin/wiki.pl?Scancodes


And thanks for sharing this!

Aciera wrote:

In the man page, this link is not working for me though:
wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi−bin/wiki.pl?Scancodes

Still 404.

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Scancodes

Looks like an issue with hyphens.

andypugh wrote:

wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Scancodes

Looks like an issue with hyphens.

It's an ASCII 2D minus sign in the source code.
I need to se how to force asciidoc to not convert to hyphen.

andypugh wrote:

It's an ASCII 2D minus sign in the source code.
I need to se how to force asciidoc to not convert to hyphen.

And the URL is fine in the html docs generated on my test machine too!

I am a bit stumped.

Looks like an issue with hyphens.

Exactly the hyphen in the link I posted is a bit longer then in the one you posted.
This seems to be the same issue that has come up a few times when people copy/paste HAL pin names from man pages into their HAL files and the pin names are not recognized because the hyphen is a bit longer. I wonder if it depends on the users PC though because I'm sure a lot of people do that and the issue does not come up very often in the forum.

How can there be two different hyphens?
ASCII code 45 = - ( Hyphen , minus sign )
The only other similar symbol I see is this. But it seems much longer.
ASCII code 196 = ─ ( Box drawing character single horizontal line )

[edit]
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