PicoCalc Keyboard testing in MMBasic

Guidouil · September 19, 2025, 7:27pm

I don’t know why but I had to code this, maybe it’s kind of an homage to this awesome keyboard

Keyb screenshot

This was fun to type, and now I understand polygons

keyb.bas

main

' keyb.bas - Keyboard testing
cls
framebuffer create
framebuffer write f
dim v0$(4)=("145","146","147","148","149")
dim l0$(4)=("F1","F2","F3","F4","F5")
dim v1$(4)=("27","9","","127","8")
dim l1$(4)=("Esc","Tab","Cap","Del","Bck")
dim l2$(6)=("`","/","\","-","=","[","]")
dim l3$(9)=("1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","0")
dim l4$(9)=("Q","W","E","R","T","Y","U","I","O","P")
dim l5$(8)=("A","S","D","F","G","H","J","K","L")
dim l6$(8)=("Z","X","C","V","B","N","M",",",".")
dim l7$(1)=(";","'")
dim xl%(2)=(10,50,10)
dim yl%(2)=(90,120,150)
dim xr%(2)=(90,50,90)
dim yr%(2)=(90,120,150)
dim xu%(2)=(10,50,90)
dim yu%(2)=(90,120,90)

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Toml_12953 · September 20, 2025, 8:22pm

Cool! It looks like a lot of work but it came out great. Thanks!

Amarok · September 21, 2025, 6:53pm

Is it normal, that for Caps Lock there’s no reaction?

rlauzon · September 21, 2025, 7:13pm

Is it normal, that for Caps Lock there’s no reaction?

That’s the way mine works. But it does change the key input depending on how it’s set.

So, if I press “y” I’ll get one input. But after pressing Caps Lock, I’ll get a different input (i.e. “Y”).

Guidouil · September 21, 2025, 8:31pm

Yeah like the shift and controll key has no effect. They can’t be detected. Maybe I should update my code once I figure how to detect them properly. The documentation is a pain

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