prevent too fast typing, how to?

[Peter Alcibiades]

Many thanks guys - I'll have a try with these!  And yes, if all else fails 
there is always a dab of epoxy...

Peter


On Wednesday 07 March 2007 20:44, Jim Ault wrote:
> trap the keystrokes, then set a global, test the new ticks...
> global mm
>
> on rawKeyDown whichKey
> get the ticks - gTicksLastGoodKey
> if it < gMinKeyDelay -- too short, don't pass the keystroke
> else
>  put the ticks into gTicksLastGoodKey
> pass rawkeydown
> end if
> end rawkd
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
>
> On 3/7/07 12:29 PM, "Peter Alcibiades" <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk>
>
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:10, Jim Ault wrote:
> >> Try trapping the 'rawkey down' code for the '000' and see if you can
> >> just substitute the '0'
> >
> > This is my problem, I can't figure how to do this.  Because I've used xev
> > to find the keycodes, and what is happening is, 0 sends 90, and 000 sends
> > 90 three times.  Its a very rapid sequence of keypress and keyrelease,
> > three times.
> >
> > So I can't trap the keycode.  Sarah Reichelt had posted something a while
> > back which allowed you to trap cases where the key repeats, so she set a
> > flag and then caught the second sending of (eg) 0 on a key still down,
> > without a key release in between.  I can't do that, because the sequence
> > is
> > keypress+keyrelease, keypress+keyrelease, keypress+keyrelease.  It seems
> > like the only distinguishing thing is the speed with which it happens.
> >
> > Yes, understand Andre's reservations, and I would never do it in a
> > general purpose application, but in this particular case no-one is ever
> > going to want to key in 000.  The pad will be used by computer-phobic
> > older volunteers to key in numbers smaller than 20.  I am absolutely
> > certain that anytime key 000 is used, its going to be in error for the
> > zero.  But I still feel a bit squeamish about putting the entry into a
> > variable and then reformatting it to take out all 000s!  Something tells
> > me, you have to make it possible to enter three zeros, just not using the
> > 000 key.  Instinct!
> >
> > Maybe there is no way, and we just have to deal with it in training.  It
> > would be neat if we didn't have to, though.
>
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