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the popup virtual keyboard was available in earlier versions of myth.  I
dont know why it was removed as there are less key presses than navigating
around the virtual keyboard when using say mythnetvision to search for
videos.  They have this option in xbmc and other media centres.


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, David Lasker <dave at altosdesign.com> wrote:

> I keep forgetting that Google doesn't index sourceforge mailing list
> archives. Searching the lirc list archives directly came up with this
> thread:
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=edc06e0a0906301109r16a
> c31aalb4c3913ac53dbfd0%40mail.gmail.com
>
> It suggests sending backspace characters on multiple key presses to delete
> the previous entries.
>
> The problem with Christoph's approach is that there is no timeout. So if
> you
> press the 2 key once, and then a 2nd time a minute later, you get
> 2-backspace-a instead of 2 2.
>
> It still bothers me that I can't get the repeat or delay parameters to do
> what I expect. So I am giving up on this for now.
>
> The mythtv virtual keyboard is pretty cool so I can live without this
> feature.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:52 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How to send alphabetic letters from IR remote
> number pad?
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:54 PM, David Lasker <dave at altosdesign.com> wrote:
> > I can't believe I am the first person to try to do this, but my Googling
> for
> > help came up empty. I posted this question on the lirc mailing list, and
> got
> > no reply. So I hope someone here has more insight into my question:
> >
> > I would like to use the number keys on my IR remote to send mythtv
> > alphabetic characters, using the same user interface as is implemented on
> > many cell phones and A/V equipment. For example:
> >
> > - Pressing the 2 key briefly sends "2"
> > - Holding the 2 key for 2 repeats sends "a"
> > - Holding the 2 key for 3 repeats sends "b"
> > - Holding the 2 key for 4 repeats sends "c"
> > - Pressing the 3 key briefly sends "3"
> > - Holding the 3 key for 2 repeats sends "d"
> > - etc.
>
> I'm almost positive Christoph Bartelmus has posted an example config
> for how to do this on the lirc list at some point in the past, but
> you'd have to search the list archives...
>
> --
> Jarod Wilson
> jarod at wilsonet.com
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