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From: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A Manx question
Summary: ConsoleDevice and RawKeyConvert()
Message-ID: <848@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com>
Date: 22 Nov 89 02:10:34 GMT
References: <7450001@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: acs@pccuts.pcc.amdahl.com (Tony Sumrall)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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In article <7450001@hpindda.HP.COM> warren@hpindda.HP.COM (Warren Burnett) writes:
}Hi there.  I am having a problem wint Manx 3.6a that I hope someone can help
}me with.  I am trying to process RAWKEY events through the console.device
}routine RawKeyConvert().  To do this, the docs say that I need to declare
}
}	struct Device *ConsoleDevice;
}
}and initialize it from a field in the structure returned by OpenDevice().
}That is fine; I have no problems doing that.

Good, the docs are correct.

}                                              I am also including the file
}functions.h so that I don't have to cast all of the OS routine return 
}values.  My problem is that in functions.h there is the following declaration:
}
}	long	ConsoleDevice();
}
}Does anyone know what this is?

Yeah, it's an error -- functions.h is messed up here.  I ran across this
bug while working on an old version of VT100.  I simply commented the
definition out of functions.h and define it in my source modules in the
manner that the docs suggest.

}                                I cannot find any reference to this routine
}in any documentation that I have (Amiga OS or Manx) or in any of the Manx
}libraries.

You need it if you're gonna call, e.g., RawKeyConvert().  You initialize
it like so:

    struct IOStdReq ConReq;
    struct Device *ConsoleDevice;
	.
	.
	.
    if(OpenDevice("console.device", -1L, &ConReq, 0L))
	cleanup("can't open console", 4);
    ConsoleDevice = ConReq.io_Device;

}		Warren Burnett
}		warren@hpindip%hp-sde.sde.hp.com
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Tony Sumrall   author of VT100 2.9 (and 2.8a and 2.8 and...)
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