[simpits-tech] Keyboard encoders

[James Hallows]

Yup - that's as I thought. 
http://www.phidgets.com/phidget-interfacekit/ScannedDigitalInput.html tells 
me it probably just informs me when a switch has been closed or not. That 
still means I'd need to find some way of sending keyboard scan codes to the 
keyboard buffer - no mean feat in a driver and better implemented in 
hardware via a keyboard encoder which doesn't require driver support or CPU 
resources. Don't get me wrong - I would love it if Phidgets did all this as 
it's natively coded for the language I develop in - VB. That's a gift for 
me and integrating it with my Cougar work.

But currently, that still makes the X-Keys or Hagstroms cheaper and better 
bets fulfilling the original requested application for a device that can be 
connected to switches and be programmable to generate keyboard scan codes.

Cheers

James


>you can find it in the on-line shop under the prototype section and the
>documentation is :
>http://www.phidgets.com/phidget-interfacekit/phidget-interfacekit_hardware.html
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> >You do have the 0/256/0 that runs 256 switches in a matrix,  and costs
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>Aah I missed that one. I can't find any documentation on it on the site. I
>presume what this does is to allow you to monitor when a switch is closed
>or not, and therefore you'd still need to program output as you'd want it?
>So it wouldn't therefore do the equivalent job of a keyboard encoder
>module?
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>Cheers
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>James
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