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From: billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe,2847,)
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Subject: Re: How do you read keystrokes in A
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Date: 22 May 89 15:43:19 GMT
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From article <8131@boring.cwi.nl>, by dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter):
>> 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.

    The keys are generally labeled; e.g., the 'A' key will be labeled A.

    The function then returns some object whose value indicates an 'A'...


    Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu