Control Codes in keyboard_layout_us not supported

[bborncr]

Is there a reason that control codes besides LF (\n) are zeroed out in keyboard_layout_us.py?

For example, changing b"\x00" # CR \r to b"\xa8" # CR \r on line 48 allows \r to be used instead of \n

Now \r can be used to to send ascii art to a chat without breaking every line into separate messages:

ascii_art2 = \
"```           ___\r"\
"     |     | |\r"\
"    / \    | |\r"\
"   |--o|===|-|\r"\
"   |---|   | |\r"\
"  /     \  | |\r"\
" |       | | |\r"\
" |       |=| |\r"\
" |       | | |\r"\
" |_______| |_|\r"\
"  |@| |@|  | |\r"\
"___________|_|_\r```"\

The result:

[dhalbert]

The ASCII_TO_KEYCODE table in keyboard_layout_us.py is meant to map to physical keys. I looked up keycode \xa8, and it's something obscure. Did you mean \x28?

Assuming you meant \xa8, what chat system are you using that uses \xa8 as a non-breaking newline?

[bborncr]

\0xa8 is SHIFT+LF (SHIFT+0x28) which I always understood was \r (a carriage return without a LF). But looking it up the actual ASCII code for \r is 15 (0x0f). ENTER is being send for \n, and I'm just doing a SHIFT+ENTER for \r. So maybe what I'm doing is just a hack?

[dhalbert]

SHIFT+LF is a convention for non-breaking newline, but it doesn't really have anything to do with CR (\r). You could send a line of the image and then kbd.send(Keycode.SHIFT, Keycode.ENTER), then another line, etc So, yes, it is a kind of a hack :slightly_smiling_face: .

If I were coding this up, I might make a list or tuple of the lines of the art, without \r in them. Then write() each one, one at a time, followed by the kbd.send() I gave above.

[bborncr]

Understood! Thanks!