Subject: Re: keyboard input of arbitrary characters
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 10:59:16 CDT
Mike Nordell wrote:
> It was/is in Word95 (aka 7.0), just tested. Apparently M$ did the same
> implementation mistake in W97 that we have done in AW. :-)
>
Thanks for checking!
> > reserve a "namespace" (like <alt><ctrl>) for a user's custom shortcut
> > keys.
>
> Please keep in mind that the AltGr (to the right of the space bar) present
> on at least Swedish keyboards is reported as the combination of Alt and
> Ctrl, why that would severly mess up keyboard mappings (been through this
> with BeOS, don't wanna go there again).
Thanks for this, also. I'm hoping we can come up with some combination
of two modifier keys that can be reserved for the user's custom shortcut
keys.
Randy
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