Detecting Keypress Release
I added a feature to our app to detect "long presses" - when the user is holding down a directional key, the focus keeps moving until the key is released. Problem is that sometimes the roku does not ...
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I was referring to how the remote itself behaves. The events delivered to Brightscript use a different paradigm. If you look at the remote through a cellphone camera, you will see that while you hold a button down, the remote is sending continuous codes. (Well not actually continuous; it repeatedly sends 180 ms codes with a 30 ms gap between codes.) When you release the button it stops sending. The firmware sends one press event to Brightscript when it receives the first code, and synthesizes a release event when it fails to get another code in the expected time.
--Mark
--Mark
