Buying myself some foot-pedals?

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Buying myself some foot-pedals?

Post by richmond62 » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:22 pm

A few years ago, after the 2009 Edinburgh RunRev conference, I went away up to St. Andrews (my base in Scotland, and ...

Was asked by a lady there who was blessed with a Macintosh eMac (!!!!) if I could program something to help her with
transcribing .AIFF files . . .

I knocked up something pretty basic which probably left her cursing pretty quickly . . . but, then it was free . . .

Anyway, today I was shopping for toilet paper and, logically, went looking for it in the computer section of my local hypermarket here in Bulgaria.

I noticed several steering wheel with pedal sets ups for silly race games; all USB based . . . AND . . . wondered, as most old-fashioned cassette-tape-based
transcription machines were foot-pedal operated so the transcriber had their hands free for the typewriter.

Presumably (!!!!!!! before I invest !!!!!!!) Livecode can pick up any USB signal as a rawKeyDown signal, and so should pick up signals from the sort of foot pedals that
come with these kits.
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Re: Buying myself some foot-pedals?

Post by richmond62 » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:43 pm

For the sake of argument, an old Nostromo Gamepad
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seems undetectable by Livecode on either a machine running Linux
or a machine running Mac OS 10.5.8 PPC.

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Re: Buying myself some foot-pedals?

Post by richmond62 » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:53 pm

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