Our friends at the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies want a version of SerialKeys that works on Macintosh OS X. This looks doable. I’ll collect links here.
- SerialKeys is loosely documented here.
- The escape sequences are documented here.
- On the Mac we’ll need to use functions from the Remote Operation
package.
- The serial port stuff looks just like Unix and should be easy.
- Determining the key to press in order to get a character looks tricky. Greg found this page KeyCodesAndCharCodes which includes a link down at the bottom of the page to some HotKeys Code that might do the right thing. The tricky bit is that letters are in different places on different national keyboards and it seems difficult to find that out. I’m guessing this will only be a significant problem for punctuation characters.
- We’ll need a USB to Serial adapter to get a serial port on the Mac. Comments I read on the newsgroups indicate that KeySpan has the best support. Missy ordered us a Keyspan High Speed USB Serial Adapter. I guess that this IOGEAR guc232a which is available locally might work too.