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brettmclean / pad4pi

Interrupt-based matrix keypad library for Raspberry Pi

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Add key repeat #4

Closed antogg closed 6 years ago

antogg commented 6 years ago

Add support for key repeat using threading.Timer. Additional arguments to constructor:

repeat=False, set to True to enable key repeat with default delay and rate
repeat_delay=None, defaults to 1 second delay before starting key repeat
repeat_rate=None, defaults to 1 per second

key_delay may conflict with repeat_delay. Set key_delay to less than 1/repeat_rate * 1000 to avoid conflict.

antogg commented 6 years ago

I forgot to mention that I added test code at the bottom, specific to my test environment. I'm using RasPI3 running Raspbian Stretch with a 4x5 keypad.

Also, setting repeat_delay or repeat_rate is sufficient to enable key repeat (no need to also set repeat=True)

brettmclean commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the contribution @antogg. I've released your changes to PyPI as pad4pi 1.1.3.