[mythtv-users] FF/REW key binding confusion

[Joseph H. Fry]

Question, How difficult would this be?

Envision this: you assign keyboard keys to all the buttons on your
remote through lirc.  Then prompt the user to assign keystrokes (kinda
like most games do) to all the various commands, rather than hard-coding
the command keys.

Essentially you could program the remote buttons with a-z, then when
prompted, just press the button on the remote you want to use for each
command.  Just like setting up the keys in quake or most other games.

This setup could be done within each module separately or from one
master configuration screen for all of myth that the different modules
add a page to upon installation.

This way, no one can complain about configurations that they disagree
with... it would be completely flexable.

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 10:20 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] FF/REW key binding confusion
> 
> On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:02 pm, Albert Santoni wrote:
> > I think the developers need to see this. While the quality of MythTV
is
> > impressive in many areas, the organization and integration of the
> > keybindings in Myth is going downhill. There are LOTS of little
annoying
> > things like this in Myth that are making it harder to use all the
> modules
> > together successfully.
> > If any of the developers see this, please try to make this a
priority.
> 
> I have been sitting on a number of architectural enhancements for
> runtime-configurable context-sensitive keybindings (and other forms of
> user
> control, i.e. FIFO, LIRC, etc).  However, nothing has progressed past
the
> drawing board stage due to real life intrusions, plus the fact that my
> only
> computer at the moment happens to be my Myth box which is in my living
> room,
> hooked up to my TV, making even this email a less-than-convenient
task,
> let
> alone any serious coding.  If anyone would like to discuss this
further,
> please contact me off-list.
> 
> One topic of note (for those of you not subscribed to the CVS commits
> list) is
> that the add-on modules are in the process of finally being converted
to
> plugins.  This is/was (IMHO) a crucial step that needed to be taken in
> order
> to allow the implementation of a truly powerful, robust and consistent
> keybinding/user action mechanism.  We'll get there eventually...
> 
> -JAC
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