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From: woods@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Donald R. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Getting Amiga keys from Intuition [was Re: right mouse button]
Message-ID: <153@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 20:18:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 19 20:18:49 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Jan-87 18:53:56 EST
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Reply-To: woods@parcvax.xerox.com.UUCP (Donald R. Woods)
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In response to a recent query, several people have suggested using the IDCMP
flag RMBTRAP to get Intuition to send messages for the right mouse button.
(Normally it just brings up the menu and never tells the program about the
button.)  I looked in the IDCMP section of my Intuition manual but didn't see
this flag mentioned; was it new in 1.2, or is it just hidden in some obscure
part of the manual?

Meanwhile, I have a related problem.  I want to use the ALT and AMIGA keys as
part of multi-key combinations; that is, holding down those keys while typing
other keys has various effects.  Using RAWKEY works just fine, except for a
few special cases where Intuition intercepts the key combination and refuses
to tell my program about it.  One such combination is RIGHT-ALT plus
RIGHT-AMIGA, which Intuition treats the same as the right mouse button;
presumably RMBTRAP will let me see these keys.  Other combinations that
Intuition hides from me are AMIGA plus an arrow key (moves the mouse cursor)
and LEFT-AMIGA plus M or N.

Is there some way I can tell Intuition to stop meddling with the ALT and AMIGA
keys entirely, so that my program can see all the different keyboard
combinations I might choose to type?
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