Re: Loadable keyboards

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 19:27:02 +0200 (CEST), Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

KK>> KK>Does this way allow to remap also Alt/key combinations (and only them?).
KK>>
KK>> No, the Alt combinations are handled by TOS and are hardcoded, AFAIK.
KK>> You would have to write a completely new keyboard driver.
KK>
KK>Yes. I thought so. The point is that KEYBD.TBL feature allowed to remap
KK>Alt/key this way, afair the docus.

Yes, but it was most probably handled on AES level, so GEMDOS and BIOS
would still return different characters.

But I think the Alt keys are not needed at all. Do they exist on
English/American keyboards? I think they're on German and similar
keyboards where they needed to put some special national chars on
keyboards and they were missing free keys. I think the real solution is
to use dead keys or two different keyboards (one for programmers with
[]{}+-\@() and other for writting texts with national chars). I am going
to make the dead keys in Clocky freely editable, so you would be able to
map Polish or whatever characters on any keys and would not need Alt
combinations anymore.

Petr
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