Action to periodically execute contained actions

[alystair]

I picked up a used set of pedals in hopes to bind it to general keyboard/mouse controls to reduce RSI, however it seems I can only treat the device as a 'button' for non-motion mode related actions.

Doesn't it make more sense to allow binding repeatable actions such as mouse scrolling to a response curves such as this one? Allows config to be a one shot instead of spending time at each activation point. At the moment I'm forced to create multiple mappings at various activation points to vary page scrolling speed based on pedal position.

[WhiteMagic]

That kind of functionality is in the realm of user scripts where you can do whatever mapping from pedal position to mouse scroll wheel emissions.

[alystair]

Where do I find more information about user scripts? The link to learn more in the documentation https://whitemagic.github.io/JoystickGremlin/interface/scripts.html goes to a 404 https://whitemagic.github.io/technical/scripts

[alystair]

I think it'd make a good feature if you made it more generic, so axis could be mapped to repetition of any button/mouse button?

[WhiteMagic]

You can find some examples of scripts here https://github.com/WhiteMagic/JoystickGremlin-Plugins, I just updated them to work with R14 and use some of the newer features as well.

As for turning it into something generic, it'd need to be more than that. So a possible action might be a periodic one that has a rate. In a way similar to the Map to Mouse action when using it to move the cursor. That in effect has the same logic hidden inside. In such a "Periodic" action it would run whatever is attached to it with the given period. For a button that'd be a fixed on/off but for an axis it could be linear scale from between two rates that then could be affected by a response curve.

[WhiteMagic]

After trying to figure out a way for this to be generally usable I could not think of a way, as it effectively goes against how Gremlin triggers actions. The only action showing some "autonomy" is the macro action which has its own internal set of things it can do.