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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Getting ASCII value from scancode
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.083347.12706@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 29 Apr 91 08:33:47 GMT
References: <1991Apr27.172516.29313@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <21490@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <ENTROPY.91Apr28144438@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <21491@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
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dbrooks@osf.osf.org (David Brooks) writes:

>entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu (entropy) writes:
>/* Now, if you have the scancode right justified in int scode... */

>  shifts = Getshift();		/* i.e. kbshift(-1);

You don't have to call kbshift; the keyboard status is returned in one of
the evnt_multi return parameters. Use this value instead of the kbshift
value to be sure to get a consistent view of the things going on at the
keyboard and in the AES keyboard buffer.

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