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

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 19 13:53:41 UTC 2015





> On 20 Oct 2015, at 12:12 am, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
Nope, tried that - with onscreen keyboard disabled the enter key does nothing.


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