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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: input.device stuff
Message-ID: <2814@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 88 21:45:52 GMT
References: <788@applix.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <788@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes:
)I am trying to feed a stream of ASCII characters into the input.device.
)I'm trying to simulate keyboard activity.
)
)The input.device expects (optionally qualified) raw key presses and
)releases.  So, to do what I want, for each character, I must determine
)a raw key code and appropriate qualifiers which will generate it.  In
)other words, I need something like a RawKeyConvert() that runs backwards
)(accepts ASCII and produces a raw key event).

The function InvertKeyMap() in commodities.library (part of Commodities
Exchange) does what you want.  Source has been distributed, but you
can't steal hunks of it wholesale.  Perhaps you will find ikm.c
educational.

One good think about it living in a library (hopefully soon to be
semi-standard) is that it undoubtedly has bugs (none known) which can
be fixed retroactively for client programs by updating the library.

And don't forget dead keys.

	jimm

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