Re: Loadable keyboards

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Michael Schwingen wrote:

> Only up to TOS 2.06.
> 
> "New code as of 5/92: in the all-countries cases (TT, SPARROW) we use
>  the new variables salttran/saltshif/saltcl as associative lookup tables
>  instead of doing the alt-key translation job in code."

Good news :-) Seems like I have to write myself a decent
keymap-editor.

> Keytbl (XBIOS 16) returns the pointer to the KEYTAB struct. In newer TOS
> versions, these consist of:
>  - unshift table
>  - shift table
>  - CTRL table
     ^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure you don't mean "caps-lock table"?

>  - unshifted ALT table
>  - shifted ALT-Table
>  - capslock ALT-table
> 
> The new tables consist of scancode, ASCII code pairs, terminated by a zero
> scancode.

This is the format described in the Compendium as available from TOS
5.0...

> I am not sure if this was documented by Atari (I don't have a compendium

Not in the Compendium atleast. The documentation on Keytbl() only
mention unshift, shift and caps-lock.


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