[MiNT] SV: SV: Eiffel wheel mouse

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

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> > From: Helmut Karlowski [helmut.karlowski@ish.de]
> > Sent: 2011-05-20 12:17:17 MEST
> > To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi
> > Cc: helmut.karlowski@ish.de
> > Subject: [MiNT] SV: Eiffel wheel mouse
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> > > Then there's something wrong. These scancodes should never be sent to the keyboard handler at all.
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> > So you don't want to have e.g. Shift-F6 on your keyboard?
> >
> > Or did I miss something?
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> Yes. These scancodes doesn't exist in the actual keyboard. When you press shift+f6, the keyboard sends the scancode for shift and the scancode for F6. The keyboard handler then generates the scancode for F16.
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> So it's perfectly safe to use these scancodes for the mousewheel events, as long as they never reach the keyboard handler.

I see. Vincent, can you fix this? ;-)


-Helmut