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From: minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Masking Modified Characters
Message-ID: <1859@mountn.dec.com>
Date: 17 Aug 90 18:14:21 GMT
References: <3903@husc6.harvard.edu> <1990Aug16.152714.18081@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <T43NJGC@cs.swarthmore.edu>
Reply-To: minow@bolt.enet.dec.com (Martin Minow)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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In article <T43NJGC@cs.swarthmore.edu> jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu
(Nick Jackiw) writes:

>Steve's method [get the keycode from the event and call KeyTrans on
>the code with the optionKey modifier masked out] is the sanctioned one (cf.
>TechNote#263), but assumes
>that the proper keycode is stored in the low-byte of KeyTrans' return.

I think the reason I didn't use this method is that I needed to handle
the dead-keys (option-E, for example) as any other key -- this was for a
terminal emulator that did Dec LK201 "compose" properly.   Can Steve's
method let me type Option-E/Shift-6 (E-circumflex in Dec Compose mode)?

Martin.
minow@bolt.enet.dec.com