[Toybox] Request for two commands to be added to toybox please.

scsijon scsijon at lamiaworks.com.au
Mon Sep 9 01:29:48 PDT 2019


You did ask for submissions for '?possibly missing?' commands!

Can I ask for these two to be considered to be added to your 'todo' list 
please?

showkey - which shows what's assigned to a specific pressed key (usually 
octal, but could be multi-byte hexidecimal or even a character stream on 
some keyboards).

and

setkey (modified busybox setkeycodes) - matching showkey to allow 
multi-byte assignments under a key combination (and not just busybox's 
single octal, as with their setkeycodes).

I have extra keys on most of my keyboards (and suspect most people do). 
I'd like to either use or (better) reuse them and these commands should 
allow me to find their codes and re-assign them to not be 'wasted' or 
duplicate' keycodes, hell I even have a couple of 64key programable 
keyboards with usb plugs that came to me from somewhere where I can 
internally assign up to 16bytes to each key. They have a socket to plug 
you 'normal' keyboard into, so work as a pass-through for those keys. I 
just need to be able to set them up for better use.

Or maybe you have a better way of doing it generically?

O.T. I do miss your aborigonal, I still have a working .pet you helped 
me setup from back then. It can still be chroot'd into on our 32bit Puppies.


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