[lcdproc] suggestions for keypad w/ lcdproc?

[Wade Hampton]

Greetings,

I am connecting a 3x3 keypad to the parallel 
port in addition to my winamp-connected HD44780.

I currently plan on using a latch and reading them
on 3 of the input linnes:

  SEL  (17)    clock for latch
  D0..2        row drivers, input to the latch

  FAULT        inputs (which 3 TBD)
  PAPEREND
  ACK
  BUSY

Questions:

1)  Anyone have a similar configuration?

2)  Anyone have code to do something similar
    (e.g., a thread to read the keys)?

3)  Any interest in folding this back into lcdproc
    in the future?  My initial plan is to do this
    outside of lcdproc.

BTW, I am adding a bunch of documentation and making
a few cleanups to the hd44780 source files for lcdproc.

I also had some problems with using a LCD via the 
4-bit mode on 0.4.1.  The same hardware worked fine 
on 0.4pre9.  As the 4-bit mode is very slow, I decided
to go 8-bit (hence complicating my keypad).

Cheers,
-- 
W. Wade, Hampton  <whampton@staffnet.com>  
If Microsoft Built Cars:  Every time they repainted the 
lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, and 
you'd have to restart it, but you'd just accept this.


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