Detecting keyboard input

[budgiebird webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Problem overview.

An item of hardware has been built that contains a number of keys.
Pressing these keys produces an event that is the same as a keyboard event.
For example pressing hardware key 1 produces a ?,? (comma) and hardware key 2 produces a ?.? (period) etc.

This can be shown to work by running the hardware connected to notepad and notepad shows the correct/expected results.

I was given the keyboard-mapping list and asked to develop interactions using Macromedia Director that would respond to certain keyboard presses.

This Director exe runs perfectly when driven from the computer keyboard and meets with the requirements.

However when the hardware is connected to the pc the Director exe only sees the hardware key presses intermittently.

So although both deliverables work to specification i.e. the hardware produces the correct values when connected to notepad. And the software reacts correctly to the appropriate keyboard inputs; the two do not work together.

Any insights?

thanks

ron bird

[Alexander Ross]

In Dir, are you using keyCode or ascii values? I'd start with ascii vals


"budgiebird" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Problem overview.
>
> An item of hardware has been built that contains a number of keys.
> Pressing these keys produces an event that is the same as a keyboard

event.

> For example pressing hardware key 1 produces a ?,? (comma) and hardware

key 2 produces a ?.? (period) etc.

>
> This can be shown to work by running the hardware connected to notepad and

notepad shows the correct/expected results.

>
> I was given the keyboard-mapping list and asked to develop interactions

using Macromedia Director that would respond to certain keyboard presses.

>
> This Director exe runs perfectly when driven from the computer keyboard

and meets with the requirements.

>
> However when the hardware is connected to the pc the Director exe only

sees the hardware key presses intermittently.

>
> So although both deliverables work to specification i.e. the hardware

produces the correct values when connected to notepad. And the software
reacts correctly to the appropriate keyboard inputs; the two do not work
together.

>
> Any insights?
>
> thanks
>
> ron bird
>
>

[hairybobby webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

what handler are you using.

sometimes the keypresses may work intermitently due tio one handler canceling out another

try using both the on keydown and key up handlers

eg

on keydown me
if keypressed(123) then blah
if keypressed(124) then hblah
if keypressed(125) then hhblah
end if

on keyup me
if keypressed(123) then blah
if keypressed(124) then hblah
if keypressed(125) then hhblah
end if

hth


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[budgiebird webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi guys
the handler I'm using is for example:

if the keypressed = numtochar(50) then

thanks for the feedback, I'll look to investigating your proposals shortly.

Cheers

ron

[budgiebird webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks guys and thanks 'hairybobby'......it worked, we can all sleep well now!!