[mythtv-users] Key modifiers in lircrc

[Michael Carland]

On May 26, 2005, at 5:52 PM, Ben Giddings wrote:

>
> Yeah, I think the correct way of doing lirc stuff is that you put the
> *commands* in the lircrc file, not the keys.  That's how mplayer and 
> xine
> seem to work.  For example, mplayer's "fast forward" command is:
>
> begin
>     prog = mplayer
>     button = Forward
>     config = seek +10
> end
>
> In other words, activate the 'seek' command with a '+10' parameter (go
> forward 10 seconds).
>
> In MythTV it's:
>
> begin
>     prog = mythtv
>     button = Forward
>     config = >
> end
>
> Where you have to then define '>' somewhere else.
>
> I don't know why it was done the way it was in MythTV, maybe it's the 
> easy
> way, but I'd love it if someone would change the MythTV lirc stuff to 
> be
> more like mplayer, etc.
>
> Ben

The problem I see with this in Myth is that there are many "modes" in 
Myth, where you may want the same remote key to perform a different 
function in different modes. This would be problematic if the function 
name was in the config line.

Not that I have a better solution.

What I would like is more fine grained keys. I have my remotes "play" 
key mapped to space, and I like that in menus it will select the menu 
item, but when video is paused, I would like it to unpause, and when 
video is playing, I would like it to display info like the I key does 
now. If the play button was mapped to a function name this wouldn't 
work. As it is now, I would just have to add more fine grained key 
mappings.

This thought just came to me. Maybe there could be separate mappings to 
myth functions for keyboards and remotes. You could still map keys like 
now, but you could have lirc pass in the name of the buttons, and in 
Myth you could map full button names to functions.

Dunno. Just rambling.

What got me started on the Ctrl key thing in the first place was the 
note in the keybindings page of mythweb that explicitly suggests to use 
modifiers for jump points, to avoid overriding regular functions. Maybe 
I'll see if I can fix the Myth lirc code to handle Ctrl keys. 
Eventually I'll find something to fix that's at my skill level, this 
may be it!

-Michael