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From: chan@batman.UUCP (Milo Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Numeric keypad and making NumLock key work
Message-ID: <9012191442.AA21420@batman.mbs>
Date: 19 Dec 90 14:42:12 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc.
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Is there a way to set up the numeric keypad so that pressing the NumLock
key actually makes the keypad send the characters represented on top of
the key caps (i.e., 0-9.=/*-+) ?

If this isn't possible, can the keypad be configured (via xmodmap,
perhaps?  I am rather unfamiliar with that utility) to always send those
characters?

This feature is very important for numeric-intensive data entry.

I am writing applications using the OI ("Object Interface") library (an
X toolkit from Solbourne Computer Corp. written in C++) and either Sun
OpenWindows 2.0 or plain X11/R4 from MIT running on Sun SparcStation 1+'s.

Any suggestions/solutions would be greatly appreciated.  Please send email
directly and I will summarize.  Thanks!

Milo A. Chan
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