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Keypad switching
« on: December 15, 2010, 05:15:06 pm »
Hi everyone,

I'm working on a project for the Nspire with Ndless 1.7, and I'd like to use the 84+ keypad. What I'd like to know is how the Nspire detects keypad removal (Keypad interrupt? GPIO interrupt? Hackspire doesn't really make this clear) so I can stop it from doing anything. I also don't get how the OS detects which keypad is currently installed.

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Re: Keypad switching
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2010, 05:35:29 pm »
Hi, Welcome to Omnimaga! :)

While running an Ndless program, you can switch keypads all you want.  Once the Ndless program starts, the OS interrupt that usually checks for a keypad stops running; therefore, keypad switching is allowed.

Good luck with your project!
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Re: Keypad switching
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2010, 10:45:33 pm »
Heya and welcome to the forums! I can't wait to hear of your project! :)
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Re: Keypad switching
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2010, 05:42:55 pm »
Unless something has happened in the two-ish months that I have been absent (and it very well might have), we have no way to detect which keypad is installed.
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Re: Keypad switching
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2010, 06:11:06 pm »
There's some keypad-related work in function 0x10013958 of OS 2.0.1 non-CAS.
It seems to detect the transition from a Clickpad/Touchpad keypad to a 84+ keypad (but could probably be adapted). The OS variable 0x10733DA8 is "keypad_type" and contains a value between 1 and 4 (see this description).
The functions 0x10276B84 and 0x10091F90 involve the currently undocumented I/O ports 0x900B0018 et 0x900B0020, there's probably something to do with them.
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Re: Keypad switching
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2010, 01:15:28 am »
Yeah, I remember when calc84maniac worked on z80nspire, I could swap the keypads while it ran and the calc did not do anything. I could continue using the emu fine with both keypads.
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Re: Keypad switching
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2010, 10:31:15 am »
^^what they said.
I've also been able to take out the batteries while the calc is plugged in during an ndless program, so obviously this isn't a problem.
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Re: Keypad switching
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2011, 11:10:58 pm »
You might just have an option, perhaps in a menu, that allows you to choose which keypad if you need to switch between them.
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