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From: carolyn@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Modula2 & keyboard
Message-ID: <1062@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 19:07:32 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  5 19:07:32 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Dec-86 03:26:32 EST
References: <7407@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <7407@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> lachac@topaz.rutgers.edu.UUCP (Gerard Lachac) writes:
>
>   Im trying to write a program that uses Intuition to handle its input
>event. In my Intuition manual, it explains that the Rawkey flag in the
>event class, when set, will send you untranslated keycodes from the keyboard.
>When you use that, you can see when they use the Amiga keys, the alt keys,
>and the function keys. My question is, how do I translate this to an ascii
>code? Id like to know what key they're pressing on the keyboard, and that
>raw code sure isnt telling me. The manual also refers to a vanillakey 
>event class, but in TDI Modula-2, the language Im trying to use, there is
>no mention of this in the set of IE classes. Any help with this would be
>appreciated.

   If you're doing any serious keyboard IO I suggest attaching a
console device to your window instead of using RawKey.  The console
device will give you all normal keys in ASCII and escape sequences
for the cursor, help, function keys.  Also gives you ANSI type
cursor control, auto-scroll, insert, delete, etc....

   If you stick with RawKey, you can either translate them yourself
or get the console device to do it for you with the RawKeyConvert
function.  See the Intuition section of the Enhancer booklet
for an example that shows how to use this routine in a manner
compatible with foreign keymaps and dead-keys.

   VANILLAKEY is defined in intuition.h as 0x00200000.  If you use
this, I think you lose cursor, help, and function key messages.

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