Ignoring Global keymappings (1 Viewer)

[TesterBoy]

I have a plugin using an SMS Input Control to accept a full text string from the user, and I'm testing this using a keyboard (rather than the remote). I don't want to use a virtual keyboard, since (as far as I can see) they require a pop-up dialog to work properly.

Currently, the SMSInputControl works fine in the plugin, except that anything mapped to an Action (e.g. b=Stop, space=Pause) is interpreted as that Action as well as being added to my input string.

Is there anything to which I can map the keys so that these Actions are ignored? (I tried mapping them to id=-1 for my window, in keymap.xml, but they are now being ignored everywhere)

 

[mPod]

SMS input is currently being worked on. Maybe you wanna contribute your sources? Might be worth us having a look at them...

No, there is no way to ignore the keys from a plugin. This might change towards MP 0.3.

 

[TesterBoy]

I haven't actually done anything to the SMSInput as yet, but the plugin is almost ready for a wider alpha test

In relation to keymap.xml - I understood that mappings would be specific to my window, but they seem to be affecting all windows e.g. even running a video n fullscreen the spacebar doesn't pause it any more. Is this expected behaviour?

 

[TesterBoy]

In relation to keymap.xml - I understood that mappings would be specific to my window, but they seem to be affecting all windows e.g. even running a video n fullscreen the spacebar doesn't pause it any more. Is this expected behaviour?

My bad (again) - I had invalid syntax in keymap.xml so no keymappings were being loaded.

Setting id=-1 seems to work fine for ignoring global mappings for a specific window, and they still work in other windows.

I suspect any invalid id would work. I guess this is a workaround, when appropriate...