Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!dik
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: How do you read keystrokes in A
Message-ID: <8131@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 21 May 89 23:11:14 GMT
References: <124000045@inmet> <5549@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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Talking about machine independent:

In article <5549@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
 >      This is an area in which a "secondary standard" 
 >      (maybe even a new predefined package!) is badly needed.
 > 
 >      There should be some means whereby the application writer
 >      can, in a straightforward and machine-independent way,
 >      either call some function which will return an object whose
 >      state will indicate which key was pressed

But how then does the application writer know which key means what?
(Oh yes, I see it: on this keyboard key 17 is 'A', on that keyboard
key 17 is uparrow.)  Moreover, on many systems this is impossible.
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