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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: detecting keypreses under basic
Message-ID: <886@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 91 08:53:32 GMT
References: <8247@plains.NoDak.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <8247@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G. Person) writes:
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>I'm working with someone who can only type with one finger.  I need a way to
>make the shift key stick so that he can do shifted characters.  
>Can something like this be done under basic?

Hmm, there are difficult (or dirty) ways to read the keyboard more
directly. But do you need *every* key? If not, you could declare
one of the funtion keys as a Shift-Lock (opposed to already existing
Caps-Lock). To reset the Shift-Lock status, you could use the same
function key by toggling, or just another funtion key (say F1 and F2).
You can read the function keys easily with INKEY$. You keep their
status in an own variable, then make a table of all keys with their
unshifted and shifted characters, and do a little conversion according
to the Shift-Lock status on your own.

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