Thread: Lots of Cool RR functionality, can we enhance button event model?

I am really impressed by the functionality being squeezed into RR. So much so that my customised skin is getting really cluttered with buttons, there are buttons everywhere!

I'd like to keep my skin as minimal and uncluttered as possible. How about adding to the button functionality so that we can mimic multiple features in one button. Here's the idea:

1. press a button (normal button)
2. press and hold a button (something like a right click on a mouse)

If there is a press and hold option, you could set the hold time in RR.ini so a user can set their preferred single click time, hold click time, and maybe a cancel click timeout. The press and hold could be translated into a right click for the skin editor/designers, for example L & R syntax in each filename.skin file, with the default being L so all the existing skins are backwardly compatible.

There is a further extension for button clicks which maybe a step to far: each button holds a state value: click it once -> state one, click it twice -> state two, click it three times -> state three, etc... Each state is a different RR function and once a key is pressed it waits a few milliseconds just incase it is pressed again. Kind of like the functionality for a mobile phone keyboard. This enhanced button event model would allow use to build skins with very few buttons and a minimalist feel. To assist the user we'd need a display of the current state of the currently pressed button.

What do you guys think? Guino, is this feasible?

I was a big fan of the ZX81, I remember the good old days!