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From: dougm@lakesys.UUCP (Doug McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS Keycaps and Find File
Message-ID: <260@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 22:55:32 GMT
References: <8812292213.aa01022@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: dougm@lakesys.UUCP (Doug McIntyre)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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>I haven't seen one; Keycaps prsents an interesting problem on the
>IIgs, since there is no system-defined mapping for the Option key.
>The most obvious thing it just to add 128 to a character if the
>option key is down, but not all programs work that way, so the
>keycaps display would be misleading.  Until or unless standards
>emerge, the best we can hope for is for each application to provide
>a menu option for displaying something keycaps-like.
>
>--David A. Lyons              bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs

	Multiscribe/Appleworks GS does support that arangement, and in
fact, there is a keycaps NDA made by Mecc, but not public domain.  It
works just fine with multiscribe/appleworks GS, and all it does is add
$80 to the character.  The way it works, is to install its own keyboard
interupt driver, and basically, just works like Apple's (except apples
is a lot more jmp and so on and so forth in that weird ROM code..) and
then it just displays its keyboard mapping..  I think that most programs
that don't support this arrangement probably won't support the extra
characters anyway..  (for example Orca/desktop) just displays garbage
and goes crazy.  (Actually I don't even think you can type them in even
with this, this was using Styleware's Note pad NDA...  That does work
just fine.. 

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