YEARS ago someone pondered a similar situation, which was creating a keyboard for use with Pronto-type remotes.

It was quite an arduous thing to do. Imagine wanting to type in A B C. You set up a keyboard screen; the client hits A; A is issued and the keyboard screen resets. Not hard.

But for B, the client has to scroll to the right -- a different screen -- hit B; B is then issued and the original keyboard screen resets. See, the letter that was just chosen can't stay highlighted because the remote can't tell where the cursor is.... as I read this, it sounds like something is wrong with the way I remember it. Let it just be said, it was ridiculously hard.

RTI remotes are not appropriate control devices for emulating keyboard type funcitons.