[mythtv-users] [Bulk] enter keypress after pin entry

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 13:42:09 UTC 2015


Hoi Mythtv,

Monday, October 19, 2015, 3:10:10 PM, you wrote:


> Quoting Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com>:

>> On 18/10/15 11:29, mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> The easiest solution from a users perspective is a PIN widget that  
>>> only takes in numbers (that's what the N stands for) and passes on  
>>> the enter key. Might not be the easiest for the devs.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Tim.
>>
>> Nothing is ever that straight forward - what about those silly Apple  
>> remotes that only have about six buttons and don't have numbers on  
>> them :)
>>
>> Our edit does have a numbers only mode so that would be no problem  
>> but I believe we usually ask for a password not just a pin.
>>
>> Paul H.

> How about if the first keypress is not <enter> it disables edit mode  
> and passes on the next enter? I've no idea how hard that would be but
> it is fiddly when changing parental level in mythvideo and the reason
> I haven't yet put protection on some of my recording groups.

> Cheers,
> Tim.

If I remember right, you can disable the onscreen keyboard. My guess
is that then <Enter> will do as you want. Of course you then will need
a real keyboard for text entry.


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