Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!garfield!john13
From: john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Straightforward examples sought
Keywords: rawkey lists
Message-ID: <4312@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 87 18:47:05 GMT
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Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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I'm looking for illustrative examples in source code on a couple of topics.

First is list creation/handling using the Exec functions. Is it just me or are
these terribly documented? The reference I use (Amiga Programmer's Handbook)
doesn't mention the NewList() function and neither it nor the RKM is very
helpful about what has to be initialized manually and what the system will
do for you. 

Also handling of Intuition RAWKEY messages. I wrote a stub which will take
the IntuiMessage->Code and handle meta-key actions, all the printable
characters, and call functions when special keys (eg the arrows or function
keys) are pressed. However I wouldn't like to be accused of ignoring the
keymaps, so can these RAWKEY messages be parsed properly without having to
mess around with the console device (which RawKeyConvert() wants to see,
apparently)? I want to avoid the console handler entirely if possible and work
just with Intuition.

John
-- 
"...and intuition, in a case such as this, is of crucial importance."
			-- William Gibson, _Count_Zero_