On 12/02/2012 05:58 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
Use idle as scott said? Or, if you don't need it to be super responsive.

My Devawriter does have to be 'super responsive' as it is, ultimately, a glorified typewriter, and as such should, in an ideal situation, work not much more slowly than the speed one might enter text into a text editor. For the sake of argument, even though I type with only 2 fingers and have to keep looking at the keyboard, I still manage to knock out about 50 words a minute!

Obviously there isn't all that much 'idle' when someone is bashing away on the keyboard.

IE
you're using visual cues as andre suggested, then polling every 100 or 150
milliseconds might suffice. Idle is probably easiest. Was wondering about
the external, seems that since this is related to os/arch even an external
would just have to sit there polling also. (though it could do it in it's
own little area and only speak up when a key changes state)  So an external
would probably be the best option except for that whole "having to write
it" thing.




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