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From: rpA-Inc@cup.portal.com (RP and Ainc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Adding F1..F10 key emulators to Terminal Emulators?
Message-ID: <34431@cup.portal.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 21:53:58 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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There is an application that runs on Sun workstations and uses the
F1..Fn function keys to run properly. All Sun workstations have keyboards
with these function keys, so the application recognizes the ESCAPE 
sequences generated by those. On the PC side, TCP/IP software and
Procomm are used to connect to the Sun's. Both these packages allow
for a keyboard translation map that the software uses to translate
the hardware F1 (or whatever) key to its custom Escape sequence.

Now on the Mac side, there is a choice of NCSA/Telnet or Microphone II
(but the problem is much more generic). I know you can change physical
or logical key-code values, but is there a way to alter what the application
receives or is it pretty much the responsiblity of the terminal emulation
software to support the function key translation feature.

I've looked at several areas from the KCHR resources to the Key Script 
facility used for Internationalization but they all seem to be off the mark.
Before I dig in any deeper, I was wondering if anyone had solved this or
had words of encouragement (or discouragement) on this. Now let me also add
that what I want to do is *customize* the escape sequences for F1 to F10.
I do *not* want to use standard VT100 function key sequences. On the Mac
this also implies disabling the "cut/paste/etc..." values associated with
F1 through F4. An even nicer (though not very necessary) feature would
also be support for Shift/Control/Command-Fn sending a different sequence.

If this is a matter for the makers of the terminal emulator programs, 
I will request such a feature from the nice folks who gave us Telnet and 
the Microphone folks. It seems like such an obvious feature for terminal 
emulators (after all they are supposed to emulate foreign terminals which 
quite often do something with the function keys).

Please mail all replies back to me. I don't often get the chance to
keep up with the newsgroup. I will summarize the replies back to the
group if there is interest.


Cheers and many thanks...

Ramin Firoozye'
rp&A Inc.
San Francisco, CA.
rpa-inc@cup.portal.com