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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 12:48:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy Miller <millert@undergrad.csee.usf.edu>
Subject: Re: Key Short-Cuts
To: gem-list@world.std.com
In-Reply-To: <memo.341037@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.87.9406101206.C27930-0100000@grad>
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On Thu, 9 Jun 1994, Mark Himsley wrote:
>
> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9406090105.B26810-0100000@undergrad>
>
>
> >To distinguish between Ctrl-H and Backspace, you know that the code for
> >Backspace isn't going to change, so Ctrl-H is something with the same
> >ascii code but a different scancode,
>
> Why not just check if ctrl is pressed? evnt_multi() can, and evnt_mouse()
> does return the state of the keyboard modifier keys (L-SHIFT, R-SHIFT, CTRL,
> ALT)
>
> Mark H.
> mdsh@cix.compulink.co.uk
>
No. This is not good. As far as I can tell, backspace returns the same
code as ctrl-backspace. You then would not be able to see
ctrl-backspace. The only solution is to first check the ascii code then
compare the scancode to backspace. If the code is different, then we
know it's ctrl-h.