Re: [NTLK] SerialKey/Microwriter help?

Bruce Durocher II wrote:
> After years of hunting, I finally found an actual Microwriter chord
> keyboard--one that has a serial interface that's a plain cable, not a
> mutant one like on the AgendA that I don't dare ever hack on. I had
> hoped to use SerialKey to grab the character output from the Microwriter
> and put it directly into my documents on the Newton, but the docs say
> that it uses 9600 baud and the Microwriter lists 4800 baud as the
> maximum. Is there a way to get the SerialKey software to work at the
> slower speed, or to torture the Stowaway keyboard driver to work with
> the slower speed? I'd really rather avoid composing the document on the
> Microwriter and blipping it to the Newton via a term program if
> possible. Thanks!

Well the driver I have for the InPath barcode reader was tortured from the
Stowaway driver and the source can be downloaded (for Windows NTK):

http://www.chuma.org/newton/inpath

Really all this driver does is reads from the serial port and blats out the
data. You can change the data rate by:

- open the project in WinNTK
- open the Inpath2 layout, the browser window will open
- click vMainApp and then the MBuildConfigOptions block in the right-side of
the browser
- scroll the text down until you see the symbol k9600bps, you'll want to
change this to k4800bps

- save and build package (Ctrl-M then Ctrl-1)

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