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From: ruslan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: KeyMap problems
Summary: there are some, buggy, but...
Message-ID: <6348@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 89 21:29:54 GMT
References: <7867@louie.udel.EDU>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <7867@louie.udel.EDU>, AXTBF%ALASKA.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Tim Friest - programmer at large) writes:
> I have been writing a Key Map Editor program and have had a problem with
> guru visits saying corrupted memory list or memory trap.  I suspected that
[...]
> 
> By the way, I hope to be posting this editor to the Net soon (it will be
> shareware or freeware or maybe even PD), but I need to iron out the bugs.
> 
Not to deter you in the least, but you might want to take a look at
2 keymap editors already out:
	Setkey, released to PD by Charles Carter.  Easy to use
once you figure stuff out (like, uh, remembering to enter stuff
with a return ;^)).  No dead key support.  Reported to be buggy
or otherwise with problems on A500s and A2000s.
	Edimap (I forget the author), posted on the net a few
months back.  Commands in French, but obvious enough.  Dead keys
are supported (although I crashed consistently if I clicked on
the "dead" button without selecting a key first.  Maybe a sick
joke? ;^))
	(There's also Keybird, in Basic, on some Amicus disk
or whatever, but I've never gotten it to run and don't know what
it's like.)
> The plug: If you are developing any software which uses a default
> keyboard layout and you are not using keymaps, PLEASE do it right and use
> the keymaps.  Honestly they are easier then typing in the matrix of values.
[...]
> In my opinion, keymaps are one of the features that make the Amiga great...
> I can use a dvorak keyboard if I want, or a french, german, british, etc.
> Don't force me to use usa1 or usa0 unless I want to.
> 
Hear, hear! I second that.  What's more, I'll flame whatever
WP products I see that don't let me use them properly (excellence!
being a prime example of such idiocy.)  Remember to support ALL
of the keyboard, too - there are high bits in them thar maps that
some of us need.
> 

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