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From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: KeyMap problems
Message-ID: <3306@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 89 21:47:32 GMT
References: <7867@louie.udel.EDU> <5887@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kodiak@tooter.UUCP (Robert Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) writes:
)The High Keymap is only 0x38 entries long; there are no entries for codes
)78-7F.  The RKM is far from clear on this point, in fact it says
)"The high keytype table covers the raw keycodes from hex 40-67, and
)contains 38 (decimal) bytes."  It actually covers hex 40-77, and contains
)38 (hex) bytes.

The confusion in the RKM probably stems from the fact that:
    1.  the keyboard device keeps a bit array of the up/down state of all
	keys in an array big enough to hold all the codes actually
	generated by the keyboard: i.e. 0x00-0x67.
    2.  the input device and keymap resource deal with keymaps which, in
	two sets of tables, cover the range 0x00-0x77.

Hopefully, y'all have been un-confused by Ford & Cotton.
-- 
Bob Burns, amiga!kodiak                   _
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