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From: heavy@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Richard Scott Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Getting ASCII value from scancode
Summary: How do I do it?
Keywords: Progammingm, C
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.232519.12216@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 23:25:19 GMT
Sender: Richard Hall ( heavu@zip.eecs.umich.edu )
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Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept.
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I am having a problem.  It is quite easy to get the scancode
for a key being pressed (by using evnt_keybd/envt_multi), but
it is a little harder if you just want the ASCII value.  For
instance:  

   it is possible to press any ALT+<key> sequence in my program.
   When I get a keyboard event, I get the keyboard state from
   vq_key_s() (i.e. shift/control/alt), but I get the scancode
   from evnt_keybd/multi.  So i guess what I am asking, is there
   anyway to go from scancode to ASCII without having to define
   all the values in my program?

Richard Hall
University of Michigan
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