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From: bob@wiley.UUCP (Bob Amstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Keyboard questions?
Message-ID: <1516@wiley.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 04:14:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 04:14:52 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 19:37:01 EST
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Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
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In an attempt to make use of the "Alternate" key, I ran into the
following problem. Its possible for me to type faster than my application
can obtain and deal with the key presses. I would like to detect odd
combinations shift keys, i.e. Control and Alternate, pressed in
combination with a normal key such as a letter. Since I need
to buffer the key presses, the GEMDOS input functions would be
convenient to use, however, they don't allow me to obtain information
about what shift keys were depressed when the key was pressed.
I can't use the BIOS calls because key presses would be lost
(the GEMDOS buffering would steal the keys). Also I do not want
to use a solution that would cause auto repeat not to work.

If anyone knows the answer to the problem, please tell me. I thought
about using GEM, but I noticed that the event for a key pressed also
does not return shift key information. Question to Atari: Why is it
easy to get shift key info when a mouse button is pressed, but not
when a key is pressed?

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		---Bob Amstadt
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