Re: [Simulavr-devel] kbdgentables

[Joel Sherrill]

Knut Schwichtenberg wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> sorry for my delayed input but currently I "a little busy" at home. As far as I
> remember these data files are necessary to simulate a PC 104 keyboard. There is
> an example (atmel_key) were the simulated keboard is attached to 2 pins of an
> AVR and a pressed button is translated by these tables into a scan-code normally
> sent by a keyboard. I expect (without drilling to the bones) these scan-code
> tables are developed for a German keyboard layout - please check with an US
> layout for Z/Y Coma/semicolon, dot/colon and ?,/ (at least all :-).
>
>   
LOL!  Well that is a problem for another day.
> kbdgentables(.exe) is a program to create the keyboard specifics - don't konw
> detrails, but it is IIRC only used during the setup.
>
>   
OK.  I think we agree this can be a "maintainer mode" generated
item.
> Location of the examples:
> Each startup script of the examples (checkdebug.tcl) shows as the third or
> fourth command:
>
> #load the avr-simulator package
> load ../../src/.libs/libsimulavr.so
>
> If the examples are moved a more sophisticated location mechanism have to be
> implemented.
>   
Indeed.  I have been thinking on how to address that.  The kbd.xbm
image and location of gui.tcl are also issues.

--joel
> Knut
>
> Weddington, Eric schrieb:
>   
> >  
> >
> >     
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:address@hidden 
> > > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:04 AM
> > > To: Weddington, Eric
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Subject: Re: [Simulavr-devel] kbdgentables
> > >
> > > Weddington, Eric wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > So I see that the executable kbdgentables(.exe) is 
> > > >         
> > > installed in /bin.
> > >       
> > > > What is this used for? Is it used only for the examples? 
> > > >         
> > > Why is it installed?
> > >       
> > > >   
> > > >         
> > > If that is all it is used for and not needed if the examples are
> > > installed, then it should be marked "noinst".  This patch does
> > > that and I can apply it if you want.
> > >       
> > From looking at the automake Makefile it seems that kbdgentables is used (with 
> > a couple of .dat data files) to generate a header file, which is dependency of 
> > keyboard.cpp, which in turn is part of the libsim library. So to my eyes it 
> > should not installed.
> >
> > However, if these data files (keynumber_to_scancode.dat and 
> > xcode_to_keynumber.dat) never change, hence the header file never changes, then 
> > why don't we just check in the generated header file and be done with it? Why 
> > continue to build the generator program kbdgentables.exe?
> >
> > Eric Weddington
> >     
>
>