New component for keyboards and panels.

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

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, while also typing numbers into the MDI with buttons like in keypad 11?
- okay crap example, as I don't know what they mean by having 9 buttons called (11).
- Also a crap example as you would really want a keypad with G, M, X, Y, Z, I, J, K, R, F, etc.

If that is what it can do, I can see plenty of use cases. It will take a pretty good documentation for non-experts to be able to use it.
Mark

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.