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From: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Keyboard input via GetMsg().
Keywords: rawkeys vanillakeys idcmp
Message-ID: <6529@dayton.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 02:32:35 GMT
Reply-To: joe@dayton.UUCP (Joseph P. Larson)
Organization: Dayton-Hudson Dept. Store Co.
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Okay.  Another dumb question.  I want my program to accept keyboard
commands including arrow keys, keypad, and function keys.  Thus, I
have set "VANILLAKEYS" in my window's idcmpflag field.  Then, when
I GetMsg() and it's a vanillakey, I handle the character.

Question 1: Is this the most efficient/reasonable way to get character
input.

Question 2: How come I'm not getting messages for arrow keys, about
half the keypad, and function keys?  Can I get these at all with
vanillakeys?  I tried rawkey instead, but I don't really want to
wade through all that crap it sends me.  Is this the only way?

Question 3: What do I really need to know about internationalizing
things?  (Or should I just go read a recent Amy Transactor for more
info on this last one?)

It's rather frustrating that my VANILLAKEYS won't give me half the
special keys on the keyboard.  Is this simply a shortcoming in my
keymap?

-Joe
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