Implementing directional keypad

Hi, I'm developing custom device using PXA270 and WinCE 5.0.
I want to implement a directional keypad which will have 4 buttons
effectively similar to say a gamepad, up arrow, down arrow, left
and right. This is so the user can navigate the main CF application
and move from say tab to tab rather than using touchscreen.

I can develop a driver which would detect which button is pressed
and say generate an event but how could i transalte this to an
event in my CF application which would allow me to navigate the form.

Touchscreen presses result in standard windows messages but how do i
get my 4key pad to do something similar?

"bill" <blyndon@gmail.com> wrote in news:ebfJ8LsmGHA.856
@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

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> Touchscreen presses result in standard windows messages but how do i
> get my 4key pad to do something similar?

keybd_event

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Valter Minute
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Have your driver post a message, call a keybd_event/PostKeyboardMEssage or
fire a named system event. It's up to you how you feel like implementing
it.

-Chris


"bill" <blyndon@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:ebfJ8LsmGHA.856@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi, I'm developing custom device using PXA270 and WinCE 5.0.
> I want to implement a directional keypad which will have 4 buttons
> effectively similar to say a gamepad, up arrow, down arrow, left
> and right. This is so the user can navigate the main CF application
> and move from say tab to tab rather than using touchscreen.
>
> I can develop a driver which would detect which button is pressed
> and say generate an event but how could i transalte this to an
> event in my CF application which would allow me to navigate the form.
>
> Touchscreen presses result in standard windows messages but how do i
> get my 4key pad to do something similar?
>
>
>

Are you using the PXA's keypad matrix features? If you are you may
want to look at the mainstone II's keypad driver which I have used to
create a directional keypad, numeric pad and some hotkeys. The driver
would then post messages much like a keyboard which should make it
easier on the application and driver developers.


Duncan


bill wrote:
> Hi, I'm developing custom device using PXA270 and WinCE 5.0.
> I want to implement a directional keypad which will have 4 buttons
> effectively similar to say a gamepad, up arrow, down arrow, left
> and right. This is so the user can navigate the main CF application
> and move from say tab to tab rather than using touchscreen.
>
> I can develop a driver which would detect which button is pressed
> and say generate an event but how could i transalte this to an
> event in my CF application which would allow me to navigate the form.
>
> Touchscreen presses result in standard windows messages but how do i
> get my 4key pad to do something similar?

We have a membrane keypad driven by a CPLD. I use keybd_event() to generate
events like a standard keyboard. If you don't have to have these keys as
special keys, try to make them like the arrow keys on a standard QWERTY
keyboard. The application software folks will love you for your efforts.

"bill" wrote:

> Hi, I'm developing custom device using PXA270 and WinCE 5.0.
> I want to implement a directional keypad which will have 4 buttons
> effectively similar to say a gamepad, up arrow, down arrow, left
> and right. This is so the user can navigate the main CF application
> and move from say tab to tab rather than using touchscreen.
>
> I can develop a driver which would detect which button is pressed
> and say generate an event but how could i transalte this to an
> event in my CF application which would allow me to navigate the form.
>
> Touchscreen presses result in standard windows messages but how do i
> get my 4key pad to do something similar?
>
>
>
>