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.

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

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"

Oh yeah I get it.

That's pretty cool.

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.