From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: How do you read keystrokes in A
Date: 21 May 89 23:11:14 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8131@boring.cwi.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5549@hubcap.clemson.edu
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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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-05-03 22:30 How do you read keystrokes in Ada? Kurt T. Meyer
1989-05-11 11:59 ` Rick Conn
1989-05-13 2:02 ` John Wolf
1989-05-18 15:48 ` How do you read keystrokes in A stt
1989-05-21 20:36 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
1989-05-21 23:11 ` Dik T. Winter [this message]
1989-05-22 15:43 ` William Thomas Wolfe,2847,
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