Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > Kent West wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Guess what? kbhit() returns a non-zero value at a variable rate: 
> between 65 and 300 ms. So you cannot distinguish between rapis key 
> strokes and holding a key down.


Mmm; I wonder if it could be done with the mouse buttons instead of the 
keyboard, or if the same problem exists there ....

--
Kent