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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Adding F1..F10 key emulators to Terminal Emulators?
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.174316.13552@svc.portal.com>
Date: 2 Oct 90 17:43:16 GMT
References: <34431@cup.portal.com>
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Reply-To: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Software Ventures Corporation.
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In article <34431@cup.portal.com>, rpA-Inc@cup.portal.com (RP and Ainc) writes:
> 
> 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. 
> 
> Now on the Mac side, there is a choice of NCSA/Telnet or Microphone II
> 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. 

	Using MicroPhone II you are able to assign a script to ANY of the
FKeys on the Extended Keyboard.  This means that you have considerable 
customization available in that your script can do anything it wants (from
just sending a bunch of text, to also checking prompts, putting up dialogs
to request info, etc.) just at the touch of an FKey.

> An even nicer (though not very necessary) feature would
> also be support for Shift/Control/Command-Fn sending a different sequence.
> 
	At this time, the handling of modifier keys would require a Macro
program such as QuicKeys, Tempo II or MacroMaker.


Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures
MicroPhone II Development Team
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Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures Corp.
MicroPhone II Development Team