Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Too bad; I think a lot of the hams would have enjoyed writing a
simple little program to turn their PCs into a Morse keyer.
I am no radio hammmer (?) no morse code since I was a boyscout 60
years ago. But I would think that one would rather use let's say the
space bar as a key for either dit's or dah's. Or alternatively just
type text and the program would translate in dit's and dah's. More
interesting would be to use the key and see if the program can read
what is being keyed.
The space bar as a keyer would be fine as a straight-key (just the
single up-down paddle you see in the movies about the Old West), but I
was thinking more along the lines of emulating a paddle (two side-ways
keys mounted back-to-back, so that your thumb produces dits and your
fore/middle finger produces dahs as you barely move your hand
left-right-left). But it would be trivial to modify the program from one
mode to the other. The hard part, as we've all discovered, is reading
the keys while bypassing the buffer and controlling the speaker.
That would indeed be interesting for the program to recognize and
display what is being keyed; that would be a good training aid for
producing clean code; if the computer can't read your hand, the ham on
the other side of the world will have trouble reading it also.
--
Kent
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