<div dir="ltr"><div>Hmm. This is not necessarily a language question, but more of a hardware interface question. I'd go a Googlin' on the Mighty Internet (or, actually, DuckDuckGoin') for stuff on "Chording Keyboards" and "N-Key Rollover". A desultory search turns up this interesting link ( <a href="https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=16676.0">https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=16676.0</a> ). I suspect most cheap keyboards strain out double non-modifier or triple keypresses before they even go over the wire to the computer. A $150 or so "gaming keyboard" might give you the hardware support you need. <br><br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Todor Fassl via Ale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I want to write some code to simulate a braille keyboard. A braille keyboard has 7 keys. One is the space bar. The other 6 you press at the same time in different combinations. So, for example, on a braille keyboard, to make the letter x, you press the 1, 3, 4, and 6 keys at once. I want to simulate that by allowing the user to press the f, s, j, and l keys at the same time. Does anybody know of a programming language that handles something like that nicely? If you were going to recommend a programming language to do that, what would it be?<br>
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My goal is to write a text editor that allows a user to type braille and saves the output in BRF format. So the user hits the f, s, j, and l keys at once and the editor puts a BRF character x into the buffer.<br>
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Right now, I'm leaning toward python because python has a gaming library that seems to allow you to hit several keys at once. But maybe somebody has done something like this in C or C++. I am about as sure as I can be that perl won't work. I don't particularly care about the programming language because by now I've learned so many different programming languages in my life I figure I can learn another one in a few days/weeks. I don't actually care if the code is portable to other operating systems other than linux. That might be nice but it's not important.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Todd<br>
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