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authorCraig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>2026-07-16 15:56:54 -0500
committerCraig Jennings <c@cjennings.net>2026-07-16 15:56:54 -0500
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feat(gallery): give the ABC keypad a keyboard and screen families
Twenty clicks for a passphrase was always the wrong answer. The plate takes focus on click and reads the keyboard now: lowercase normalises, Space maps to SPC and shows as ␣, Backspace to DEL, Enter to ENT. Every key routes through the same press() a click does, so the two paths can't drift. press() is where the filter belongs, not the keydown handler. I had it in the handler first, which guards the web and leaves the Emacs port wide open, since that port installs KEYS into a keymap and calls press directly with no handler in the stack. It gates on ACTIONS rather than KEYS because they're different sets: CLR is a real key on the plate that no keystroke reaches. The focus ring uses :focus, not :focus-visible. Chrome won't match :focus-visible on a mouse-driven focus of a non-text element, and clicking the plate is how it takes focus, so the ring would have shown only when tabbed to. On a 110-card page that means typing into a card with no sign it was listening. The window is a screen like the scope's or the marquee's, so it takes the screen families through the --scr-* vars with the shipped colours as fallbacks: nothing moves until a chip is clicked. Glass and ink both recolour, because a screen that changes its text and keeps its backlight isn't a screen. It offers all six families where its siblings carry five, since a passphrase window has no reason to prefer one phosphor.
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diff --git a/docs/prototypes/panel-widget-gallery.html b/docs/prototypes/panel-widget-gallery.html
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@@ -684,12 +684,12 @@ const INFO={
origin:'PDP-11/70 and IMSAI front panels.',difficulty:'Intuitive to watch, expert to read.',
prefer:'A spinner says busy; blinkenlights say HOW busy and with what rhythm.',
period:'1965-80 minicomputer era; the icon of computing at work.'},
-'R57':{input:'Click keys to type; DEL takes back one character, CLR wipes the lot, ENT commits. Click-only, so it ports to Emacs unchanged.',
+'R57':{input:'Click keys to type, or click the plate and type on the keyboard (letters, digits, space, Backspace, Enter). DEL takes back one character, CLR wipes the lot, ENT commits.',
solves:'Free alphanumeric text on a panel that has no keyboard — the one job the rest of the kit cannot do.',
use:'Specialty. Shines where a panel must accept a string it could not know in advance: a passphrase, an SSID, a callsign, a label.',
- limits:'Slow by design — a 20-character passphrase is 20 clicks. Any real keyboard beats it for volume; this is for panels that have none.',
+ limits:'Clicking is slow by design: a 20-character passphrase is 20 clicks, which is why the plate also takes the keyboard when focused. It is for panels with no keyboard of their own, and a real one still beats it for volume.',
origin:'Fleet, kiosk and access-control keypads — a membrane plate for the colour-coded function keys, a stainless one for the letters-left layout and the backspace.',
- difficulty:'Intuitive to use, tedious past a few words.',
+ difficulty:'Intuitive to use. Clicking is tedious past a few words, which is what the keyboard is for.',
prefer:'Text is genuinely unbounded. R16 is the digits-only sibling and is faster where the alphabet is not needed.',
ref:'../../working/retro-stereo-widgets/references/2026-07-16-abc-keypad-membrane-color.png'},
'R56':{input:'Drag the left half for temperature, the right for humidity. Drag-only, two surfaces.',
@@ -1351,7 +1351,7 @@ card(C,'R51','Voice-loop keyset',
'<b>attention management, not selection.</b> Each loop is independent: click to monitor (green bar, flickering with activity), again to talk (amber, exclusive — one voice out), again to drop. Flight controllers ran a dozen of these at once. After a mission-control comm keyset.');
card(C,'R57','ABC entry keypad',
(st,rd)=>GW.abcKeypad(st,{onChange:(v,t)=>rd(t)}),
- '<b>letters on a faceplate.</b> A-Z laid out alphabetically, not QWERTY — the industrial convention wherever the operator is not assumed to touch-type. Type into the window; DEL takes back one character, CLR wipes the lot, ENT commits. R16 enters digits; this is its alphanumeric sibling, and the only card in the kit that takes free text. After fleet and kiosk keypads: the membrane plate\'s colour-coded CLR / ENT, the stainless plate\'s letters-left arrangement and its backspace. Its CANCEL is dropped — that plate is a whole terminal with a transaction to abandon, where this is one control in a panel that owns its own dismiss.');
+ '<b>letters on a faceplate.</b> A-Z laid out alphabetically, not QWERTY — the industrial convention wherever the operator is not assumed to touch-type. Click the keys, or click the plate and type: it takes the keyboard once focused, and every key routes through the same handle a click does. DEL takes back one character, CLR wipes the lot, ENT commits. R16 enters digits; this is its alphanumeric sibling, and the only card in the kit that takes free text. After fleet and kiosk keypads: the membrane plate\'s colour-coded CLR / ENT, the stainless plate\'s letters-left arrangement and its backspace. Its CANCEL is dropped — that plate is a whole terminal with a transaction to abandon, where this is one control in a panel that owns its own dismiss.');
/* ============ METERS & GAUGES ============ */
const M=$('meters');
@@ -1653,6 +1653,9 @@ screenChips('R17',$('card-R17').gw.el,['green','amber','red','blue','vfd'],'gree
screenChips('R19',$('card-R19').gw.el,['white','green','amber','blue','vfd'],'white');
screenChips('R31',$('card-R31').gw.el,['amber','green','red','blue','vfd'],'amber');
screenChips('N11',$('card-N11').gw.el,['green','amber','red','blue','vfd'],'green');
+/* all six, where its siblings each carry five: a passphrase window has no reason
+ to prefer one phosphor, so it offers the whole set including the marquee cyan */
+screenChips('R57',$('card-R57').gw.el,['amber','green','red','blue','vfd','white'],'amber');
BOOST.forEach(no=>{const rd=document.getElementById('rd-'+no);
if(rd)rd.closest('.card').querySelector('.stagew').classList.add('boost');});