Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Kent West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
All I want to do is to detect two keys, say the left- and right-shift
keys, or the < and > keys. For one key, a short "dit" audio tone
would be generated, and for the other key, a longer "dah" audio tone
would be generated. I need to bypass the keyboard buffer, so that
holding down the dit key for two seconds doesn't generate 30 dits; it
should produce dits while the key is held down, but once the key is
let up, the dits should immediately stop (after finishing the one
it's on).
Found kbhit(), found beep. But it's not trivial to press '<' and have
the sound quit when you stop pressing: it keeps beeping until the
keyboard buffer is empty I guess. Do beeping in the background?
Code thusfar:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/2314e21f-19b9-4063-8874-72ac36480e00/do_dit_dah
Wow! You've put in a lot of work. And it looks good. But it's way too
complex for the average non-programming ham radio operator. I've about
concluded that there's not a simple solution (and definitely not a
simple cross-platform solution) for what I wanted to do. Sadly, I think
it's a lost cause.
I had thought about dropping the cross-platform requirement, and just
suggesting to everyone to use a Knoppix LiveCD to do this
PC-cum-Morse-keyer program, but from this discussion, and my own
personal failure to find a solution, I think it's not going to happen.
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.
Thanks anyway!
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Kent
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