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geekmaster · 03-27-2012, 08:38 AM

The kindles have a "waitforkey" command. It returns the same keycodes used by the launchpad app (and can be used to find keycodes to use in it).

On the kindle DX/K3/K4 it returns keycodes for the buttons on the sides too, in addition to the "keyboard" keys. On the Touch it also returns keycodes for touchscreen and accelerometer (rotation) events (so picking up your kindle touch can cause a script to continue when sitting at a "Press any key to continue . . ." prompt.

You can use "waitforkey" in script files. For testing a lot of keys, I like to do this from SSH:

while :;do waitforkey;done

03-27-2012, 08:38 AM	#4
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773668 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	The kindles have a "waitforkey" command. It returns the same keycodes used by the launchpad app (and can be used to find keycodes to use in it). On the kindle DX/K3/K4 it returns keycodes for the buttons on the sides too, in addition to the "keyboard" keys. On the Touch it also returns keycodes for touchscreen and accelerometer (rotation) events (so picking up your kindle touch can cause a script to continue when sitting at a "Press any key to continue . . ." prompt. You can use "waitforkey" in script files. For testing a lot of keys, I like to do this from SSH: while :;do waitforkey;done Last edited by geekmaster; 03-27-2012 at 10:10 PM.