2015-12-08, 11:45
Hi Guys,
Ok, things have been awesome since the addition of 'longpress' mod in the keymaps department...
however, i think we now need a new "longpressrepeat" mod to kodi's keymapping.
Currently if a global map is set eg:<backspace mod="longpress">ActivateWindow(Home)</backspace>
then there is no way of holding down backspace in virtual keyboard to quickly remove text... Backspace has to be pushed one press at a time, which is painful when you are trying to rename a large file or script path etc with a remote control.
Holding Shift-Backspace does work, but that's only useful if you're using a keyboard or have a dedicated button on your remote mapped to "shift-backspace". Let's face it, what percentage of users use a keyboard to control their TV?
my suggestion is to add a "longpressrepeat" mod that would basically cancel out a "longpress" and act like a single repeating key until released. This would mean you can sepperate the two mods from one another that way we could set something like this for virtualkeyboad:
<backspace mod="longpressrepeat">backspace</backspace>
and leave
<backspace mod="longpress">ActivateWindow(Home)</backspace> in the global mappings...
where longpresspeat is detected would cancel out a longpress mod mapped to the same action in global or the current window.
Can this be done?
Cheers,
Loggio.
Ok, things have been awesome since the addition of 'longpress' mod in the keymaps department...
however, i think we now need a new "longpressrepeat" mod to kodi's keymapping.
Currently if a global map is set eg:<backspace mod="longpress">ActivateWindow(Home)</backspace>
then there is no way of holding down backspace in virtual keyboard to quickly remove text... Backspace has to be pushed one press at a time, which is painful when you are trying to rename a large file or script path etc with a remote control.
Holding Shift-Backspace does work, but that's only useful if you're using a keyboard or have a dedicated button on your remote mapped to "shift-backspace". Let's face it, what percentage of users use a keyboard to control their TV?
my suggestion is to add a "longpressrepeat" mod that would basically cancel out a "longpress" and act like a single repeating key until released. This would mean you can sepperate the two mods from one another that way we could set something like this for virtualkeyboad:
<backspace mod="longpressrepeat">backspace</backspace>
and leave
<backspace mod="longpress">ActivateWindow(Home)</backspace> in the global mappings...
where longpresspeat is detected would cancel out a longpress mod mapped to the same action in global or the current window.
Can this be done?
Cheers,
Loggio.