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Querying current menu position with CHDK, is it possible somehow?

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Offline Karmaschinken

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Querying current menu position with CHDK, is it possible somehow?
« on: 18 / December / 2013, 10:13:12 »
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Does anybody know a technique to query the current position of the "focus" in the Canon menus so it would be possible to know which menu item is selected when pressing the "set" button via script?

Thanks! Martin
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Re: Querying current menu position with CHDK, is it possible somehow?
« Reply #1 on: 18 / December / 2013, 10:40:25 »
My guess would be "No".
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Re: Querying current menu position with CHDK, is it possible somehow?
« Reply #2 on: 18 / December / 2013, 12:23:35 »
Alright. Thanks!
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Re: Querying current menu position with CHDK, is it possible somehow?
« Reply #3 on: 18 / December / 2013, 14:05:20 »
Quote from: Karmaschinken on 18 / December / 2013, 10:13:12
Does anybody know a technique to query the current position of the "focus" in the Canon menus so it would be possible to know which menu item is selected when pressing the "set" button via script?
Since you're apparently still having trouble with reliably browsing the Canon menu, try replacing keypresses in the script with pairs of
Code: [Select]
post_levent_to_ui("PressSetButton")
post_levent_to_ui("UnpressSetButton")commands. AFAIK the camera translates physical keypresses to these for internal use, and they may work more reliably.
The key strings you'll most likely need are
PressLeftButton
PressRightButton
PressDownButton
PressUpButton
PressSetButton
and their "Unpress" pair, according to the example above. Upper and lowercase matters, you can find more strings in the firmware dump, or in strings.txt if you download the dump from the http://tinyurl.com/chdkfiles2 repo.
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