Posted by Malberg on 22, 2000 at 1:47 PM:
I noticed while I was laying out my matrix for my keyboard hack that it was a 16x8 matrix. Just for the sake of testing the matrix for ghosting, with my second identical keyboard from compaq, I picked any 3 points on the matrix that form a rectangle or square and pressed them. I was using the Ghostkey program which I downloaded from this site to test for ghosting. As I was pressing the keys one at a time and holding the previous key down, I was only able to get 2 keys of the rectangle to only show. And I tried many combinations and different rectangles, anything I tried I only got 2 keystokes to show. But If I pressed down any keys that didn't form a rectangle then I was able to hold down 8 to 10 keys and all would show in the Ghostkey program.
Can anybody give me any suggestions why this is so???
I thought that if you hold down 3 keys in a rectangle the forth key would automatically be triggered which is called ghosting!!! I can't give get 3 to show in a rectangle, can someone please explain!!!
Regards -