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From: 2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Raw keyCode ==> ASCII?
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.165337.29678@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 91 16:53:37 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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I would like to be able allow the user to reconfigure the keys used to control
a game I'm working on.  The game uses GetKeys() when the user is playing to see
if a key is down.
My question is, how can you convert a keyCode into ASCII or a keyDown event
into its keyCode?  I could special-case every known keyborad type, but this
gets real kludgy real fast.  (If the user hits the left cursor arrow, I want to
allow this as a control - the problem is, I want to display "left arrow" so
that they know what key has been assigned.)
I tried to use KeyTrans, but there is little explanation of it.  To get the
pointer to a KCHR I dereferended a call from RGetResource('KCHR',0).  I don't
know - it seemed to work on my keyboard (didn't work on the extended though).

Anyone have experience doing this?

Thanks in advance...

john calhoun