STOP THE PRESS :-)

Thanks guys for the advice - will go for 50ms and think about the key buffer
idea.
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Roy Hopkins

rdhopkins@ihug.co.nz

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>     years ago I've made a routine for treating buttoms that I'm still
using.
>
>     It runs on an interrupt that occurs once every millisecond on most
> applications and have a keyDebounce variable that usually (with no key
> pressed) have it's value equal to 50.
>
>     While a key is pressed the routine decrements keyDebounce. When
> keyDebounce is equal zero, the code of the key is put on the keyBuffer
> variable and keyDebounce = 250.
>
>     Next time (we also have a keyCounter variable) the keyDebounce is
> equal zero, key code is put on keyBuffer again a now keyDebounce =50.
>
>     It makes a nice repeating keyboard implementation and you could even
> implements "accelerating" keypresses. It works very well with all the
> buttoms/keys I've tried. I think I already used more than 6 kind of
buttoms.



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