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Capn Trips · Expert Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 3990

Having relatively recently jumped into the extender world, with ToadTogs and LKPs, I have found this tool EXCEPTIONALLY helpful (as are IR, KM and RM - but we all know THAT!). Has anybody suggested or tried to include in the ExtenderCodeCalc a capability to build the "Custom" special protocol keymoves? i.e. to have the user type in the text he/she wants to display on the LCD screen and have the spreadsheet determine the 'keycode" to enter?

Just an idea - it might be too hard and too infrequently used to be worth the effort.

Thanks.

Capn Trips · Expert Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 3990

Bump of this question.

Is it possible to include the Custom Protocol in either the CodeCalc spreadsheet or built-in to IR on its Special Protocol Tab? Surprised

Typing in the desired Custom Mode Name right there in IR would be, like, TOTALLY AWESOME, Dude! Laughing

mtakahar · Expert Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 281

Ok, not IR.exe, but I kluged Costom Mode Name support into the ExtenderCodeCalc.

Add the following line under the [Extender] section in the RDF, choose this setup code on the KeyMove/Macro Calc sheet, enter the double quoted text in the Key Strokes column and click on the Key Strokes to HexCmd conversion button.

Capn Trips · Expert Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 3990

Thanks. It seems to work pretty well.

A bit cumbersome, but effective.

Thanks again.

Nils_Ekberg · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:09 am Post subject:

I added this change to the RDF's to include with the next release of RDF's
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ElizabethD · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 2348

Nice feature. I like the idea. Works as advertised. Thanks to all of you.

Hal, I never finished the notes other than making space and refs. For bulk mode (which months ago I didn't know how to use), it needs a clipboard rewrite or something to take care of that "|" to remove/add as the sequence dictates, and ECC was supposed to be dead due to IR getting so fancy.
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Long live ECC Exclamation

I'd like to suggest one addition to the readme file. In the 'Keymove/Macro sheet' section, a reminder between (1) and (2) about shutting off wordwrap in IR would be neat.

And one about the EFC column on the Keymove/Macro sheet: various numbers got a funny format, $ up front, space at the end. It's currency format. So says Excel. I don't think it's dragged in from any other Excel open at that time. I did nothing other than paste the keymoves in from IR.

Question: for the special protocol keymoves to be included, we should shut off SPs in the RDF, right? But then what in IR? Will IR see the import as edit so that it arranges things as per the 6.10-6.15 version?

mtakahar · Expert Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 281

ElizabethD · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 2348

While you're thinking and not editing it, I can take the Notes issue to the end (including previous changes), so we can do global jobs (sorts, replacements...) on the keymoves. It would apply to the SP section as well, but only if included as standard keymoves.

IR is not complaining about few lines from Excel it got, so I'd need to fit it into the scheme of things, preferably just once. The only space i need is room for a button and one column. Re clipboard rewrite for the delimiters: I thought I did, but don't have to; Excel and few lines of VBA can do it in a simpler way than messing with the clipboard.

SP and general issue of integration: I'd think it's a good idea. SP has a different clipboard format, so it's kinda out now. And if you edit a bunch of keymoves in ECC, it requires you to delete in IR before pasting which is a bit of apain. At least that's what I see. Something is different when KM or RM format imports, I think IR asks if to replace or am I imagining it?

mtakahar · Expert Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 281

ElizabethD · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 2348

ElizabethD · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 2348

I made some changes to ECC in order to accomodate the Notes column from/to IR.
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The base for these changes is Hal's update to ECC v3.10 dated 6/30/05.

Instructions are in the Keymove sheet section of the README file and additional notes at the end. The key one is related to special protocols - a temporary tweek of the RDF file is need in order to include them. It does require a different scheme than is currently in ECC.

If the small handful of ECC addicts could take a peek, I'd appreciate it.
My key concern is that what existed before isn't broken.

mtakahar · Expert Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 281

I've just tried it with 120 or so keymoves and macros in my main remote, and it looks working fine to me so far.

Just a few comments:

You previously said IR was ignoring the changes, and now I see what you were talking about. IR doesn't catch any changes to the notes when it imports keymoves/macros and just ignores them if anything else didn't change. This is the same when you made some changes to the notes in RM or KM and reimport the keymoves (doesn't matter whether they are embedded in a device upgrade or not.) I would call this a bug in IR.
The "disable wordwrap" feature in IR (which you asked Mark to add) works really great. One minor thing inconvenience is that IR doesn't remember the settings...
You could have just modified the formula in the keymove column and included the notes there instead of introducing the Copy column, and it might have been easier?

Hal

ElizabethD · Advanced Member Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 2348

Re #1: I thought it was a feature, I swear, with some profound reason. Perhaps you can piggy back onto Rob's IR request thread to keep it in one place. And #2: yup, it's a nuisance.