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pH7_jp1 · Last edited by pH7_jp1 on Tue Sep 23, 2003 5:35 am; edited 1 time in total

My goal was to define everything about a device in the keymap file and I got stuck when I wanted to do a ToadTog, since the ToadTog device is one of the logical devices. OOPS - see my edit below. I don't even know if the keymove import/export format can handle it or not. Is there a way to do this?

I know this is more a keymap master question than it is an extenter question, but it wouldn't really have been an issue without the logical devices in the 2116ex2 extender.

I edited my own message, because I realized that I had it phrased wrong. What I really need to ask is when using the Key Moves sheet, how do you specify the key move so that Device Type and Setup Code are set to the ToadTog device in the keymap code?

Mark Pierson · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 5:30 am Post subject:

Unfortunately, it's not possible to do any advanced key moves, etc, within KM.
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pH7_jp1 · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 5:42 am Post subject: Follow-up question for Mark

Thanks, Mark. I was editing my original question at the same time you were answering it. You may want to look at the question I really meant to ask. What is the definition of "advanced key moves"? I am able to specify hex command and get a multi-byte command as needed by ToadTog and LKP into the code and imported into IR and I would have considered that to be "advanced". But I am probably misunderstanding the term the way you meant it.

Is the format of the keymove import/export code documented anywhere?

The Robman · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 9:14 am Post subject:

I think what Mark is trying to say is this: The keymove feature that was added to KM was just designed to allow you to assign functions to buttons that are not part of the keymap that you are using (so you can keep your upgrade all in one place).

If you are trying to set up keymoves to work the Toadtog special protocol, you really should be doing them in IR.exe, which is how the process was designed.

Rob

Mark Pierson · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 6:05 pm Post subject: Re: Follow-up question for Mark

pH7_jp1 · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:41 pm Post subject:

Keeping my upgrade all in one place is kinda' what I was trying to do. This is for my cable box and I want to do the page up and page down (menu commands) as a LKP on the up and down arrows and since the cable box is a TOAD I also wanted to define Discrete ON and Discrete OFF as ToadTog commands. So, if I could have put these commands in KM then everything about my upgrade for the cable would have been nicely contained in that one file.

I had already tried what Mark suggested:

pH7_jp1 · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:04 pm Post subject:

I thought I would revive this old thread just to explain that I wasn't completely crazy (at least with respect to my original request). Wink

I switched from KM to RM and it allowed exactly what I wanted. Using the External Function sheet I was able to specify LKP and TOADTOG on buttons. Everything about the commands that were sent were all related to a single device (my cable box in my earlier example) but I needed to be able to specify the devices where the special protocols were assigned and RM allowed me to do this.

Problem solved.

Mark Pierson · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 3:17 pm Post subject:

pH7_jp1 · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 8:26 pm Post subject:

Mark Pierson · Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 9:51 pm Post subject:

pH7_jp1 · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 6:26 am Post subject:

Thanks again Mark. When I was trying to do this with KM I was using version 7.53. Every time you said to look at the readme I went to that version and couldn't find anything. Now I see what you mean. That is why I said "undocumented feature" - because at that time it was and I only knew about it by hacking into the spreadsheet.