Mottie/Keyboard — Issue #32: Keyboard repeat support
Author: pascal-bach
Created: 2011-10-12 06:43:05+00:00
State: open

Hi Mottie,

I thought about a feature that would be nice to have in the keyboard. On physical keyboards the when you hold down a key the keyboard starts repeating this key. It would be nice to have this behavior too. It would be especially useful on touchscreens.

The behavior I thought about would be as follows:
When you start pressing a key the keyboard enters the character once. Then after a certain `delay` the keyboard starts repeating the character at a certain `rate`. I think `delay` and `rate` should be configurable to the desired time interval/frequency.

Do you already have an Idea how to implement this? Or should I try to come up with something?

Cheers
Pascal