Usb Keyboard

[cmunoz]

I would like to use the keyboard to control a flash game I'm developing.
I tried plugging in a keyboard but it didn't do anything in the picklelauncher flash progam thing, although my touchscreen game worked fine.
I also tried using the keyboard with the caanoo write app and it didn't seem to work there either.
Is there some kind of update I need to be able to run the usb keyboard?

Alternatively (or perhaps I should say also) if I make a flash game exclusively to play on the caanoo, how can I find out what the caanoo's buttons and joystick do as far as making them connect with a flash game.

Thanks for any help I can get!

 

[ruffnutts]

Well this video shows a keyboard working, go two and a half minutes into the video... I think I tried it once <_<

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAru-hcYwM8[/youtube]

ruffnutts

BTW - did you upgrade the firmware to 1.6.1? its the latest.

 

[dnlgreenwood]

I would like to use the keyboard to control a flash game I'm developing.
I tried plugging in a keyboard but it didn't do anything in the picklelauncher flash progam thing, although my touchscreen game worked fine.
I also tried using the keyboard with the caanoo write app and it didn't seem to work there either.
Is there some kind of update I need to be able to run the usb keyboard?

Alternatively (or perhaps I should say also) if I make a flash game exclusively to play on the caanoo, how can I find out what the caanoo's buttons and joystick do as far as making them connect with a flash game.

Thanks for any help I can get!

Hi,

Not everything supports the keyboard. In firmware 1.6.0 and up, you can use the QT html or rich text editor; it supports the keyboard. Write currently doesn't.

None of the Caanoo buttons currently do anything in flash; only the touch screen works.

All of my USB keyboards work, including my Wireless Logitech one (uses a wireless dongle).

Termula2x supports USB keyboards, and I think you can use vim (via Termula2x, of course) to edit text files.

 

[cmunoz]

Thanks for the tips, I'll be sure to get the upgrade to 1.6.1
I figured out caanoowriter and how it uses that tedious onscreen keyboard. I'll look into Termula2x as suggested.

As for caanoo buttons, they may yet work in the flash player, although I haven't fully cracked which buttons do what, but I was messing with this a little today, I wrote a simple flash app with one movie clip which contained an alphabet letter on each frame, and coded that movie clip with

on(keyPress ("A")) {
gotoAndStop("1");
}
B2, C3, etc.

so that on a regular computer with a keyboard you could push any letter key and that letter would appear on the screen.
I loaded the swf onto caanoo and was able to determine that:

the L Trigger button outputs the letter V,
the analog stick button outputs the letter J,
and the B button outputs the letter D.

None of the other buttons seemed to be outputting letter codes, although I only tested the 26 alphabet letters, so they could be numbers, symbols, etc.

However, when I made a 2nd swf of a picture of a caanoo with buttons that should light up according to which buttons I pushed, the buttons didn't seem to correspond with those letters any more. I'll continue to play with this and post my findings as they come.

 

[kayuz]

interesting please continue the work

 

[cmunoz]

Here's about all I've been able to crack.
A button - Key.UP or keycode 38
B button - Key.LEFT or keycode 37
L button - Key.DOWN or keycode 40
Home button - Key.RIGHT or keycode 39
Joystick center button - [ key or keycode 219

Other than that, I couldn't get the other buttons to do anything with flash keycodes or ascii buttons.
This is AS2 btw.