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authorGregory Nutt <gnutt@nuttx.org>2014-07-30 17:01:51 -0600
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dd support for a USB keyboard as the NxConsole and text widget input. Not fully functional as of this initial check-in. Basic functionality is there, but there are conditions were the keyboard gets lost.
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@@ -4060,30 +4060,27 @@ Configurations
recognized.
The USB keyboard is configured to replace the NSH stdin device some
- that NSH will take input from the USB keyboard. These are the
- relevant configuration options:
+ that NSH will take input from the USB keyboard. This has to be
+ done a little differently for the case of NxWM::CNxConsoles than
+ in the standard NSH configuration. Here the relevant configuration
+ options are:
- CONFIG_NSH_USBKBD=y
- CONFIG_NSH_USBKBD_DEVNAME="/dev/kbda"
-
- When NSH comes up, it will attempt to open /dev/kbda and replace
- stdin with that device. If no USB keyboard is connected when you
- start the NxConsole, you will see:
+ CONFIG_NXWM_KEYBOARD_USBHOST=y
+ CONFIG_NXWM_KEYBOARD_DEVPATH="/dev/kbda"
- Waiting for a keyboard...
-
- NSH will then automatically start when the keyboard is attached:
+ NSH will then automatically start when the NxConsole is started:
NuttShell (NSH) NuttX-7.3
nsh>
- If the keyboard is detached, NSH will stop and wait for you to
- re-attach the keyboard:
-
- nsh> nsh: nsh_session: readline failed: 1
- Please re-connect the keyboard...
+ When the NxConsole comes up, it will attempt to use /dev/kbda device
+ for input. Obviously, you cannot enter text if there is no keyboard
+ but otherwise you will not see any indication whether a keyboard is
+ connected or not.
- And the session will restart when the keyboard is reconnected.
+ If the keyboard is detached, you not be able to enter text until the
+ keyboard is reconnected. Again, there is no other special indication
+ of the keyboard state.
The keyboard is currently configured to poll at 80 MSec intervals.
That might not be fast enough for you if you are a fast typist. This