On 19/01/2008, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks! > > Apologies for the very off-topic post; I've been googling for the answer > off-and-on for two days unsuccessfully, so I've finally decided to turn > to the smartest group of people around. > > I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the > newsletter of the local amateur radio (ham) club. It'd be nice if it > were cross-platform, and preferably easy-peazy on Linux and maybe just > as easy on OS/X and just a little more trouble on Windows (so I can > subtly suggest that Windows is sub-standard to nix-based OSes (okay, I'm > never subtle about pushing Debian to my fellow hams)), and it'd be ideal > if the code requires almost no overhead, so non-programmers can easily > grasp how it works. > > 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). > > The code would look something like this: > > While ( not ESC) > read keystroke > if keystroke = LeftArrow then generateTone(dit) > else if keystroke = RightArrow then generateTone(dah) > Done > > I'm sure the information is out there on Google, but not being a > programmer, I'm finding snippets that don't have enough context for me > to be able to actually test (for example, I found a Java snippet that > looked promising, but I couldn't even get it to compile), or the > snippets read from the read-ahead keyboard buffer which introduces > delays and run-ons. > > So, any suggestions as to which language will be best suitable for my wants? > > Any suggestions as to how to detect the keypress in that language? > > Any suggestions as to how to generate a tone in that language (this one > I figure will be fairly easy to Google for, but I haven't tried, seeing > as the keypress has been the show-stopper so far). > > Thanks!
I suggest that you ask on the python or python-tutor (newbie) lists if python could do this. I'm not very familiar with the language, but I know that python can access the speaker in both windows and linux, and has qt bindings which will make for a decent GUI. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
