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From: cyj9h@hudson.acc.Virginia.EDU (chuck j. boyeeee!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: keycodes
Summary: assigning multiple keystrokes to one key
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Date: 12 Jun 90 05:02:41 GMT
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In article <9006071445.AA09751@bryant.com> klein%ncd@UUNET.UU.NET writes:
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>>Is there a convention that each key on a keyboard has a unique keycode?  Can
>>one assume this is true?  Is there any advantage for two different keys (such
>>as the right and left shift keys and the right and left Alt keys) to have the
>>same keycode?  What if you wanted to use the right Alt key for a different
>>purpose than the left one?  It seems to be a limitation.  I am using a
>>keyboard that has this problem now, after the server was upgraded.  What is
>>the current thinking (if any) on this?  


What i'd love to know is if you can assign a sequence of key codes to
one key, so that you could say, use jove and assign "funky" commands to
"funky" keys.

-thanks

-charles

cyj9h@Virginia.EDU