RE: key scan codes

["Myron Gochnauer" <goch>]

I played around with keycode.xpl a bit more, this time with an out-of-box NB
setup.

On my IBM Thinkpad running Win2K, keycode.xpl runs as expected as long as I
do not press function key F1 (help). F1 crashes the program. (With Win2K you
can close crashed-NB by using Alt-Crtl-Del, choosing Processes and then
ending both nbeditor.exe and wowexec.exe.)

This doesn't happen when the XyWrite keyboard file is loaded.   I'm not sure
(yet) how to trap the NB help key so it won't crash the program.   Anyway,
for now, just don't press F1!!!  All the other alpha-numeric keys, function
keys and punctuations keys were fine.

F1 has the scan code 59...

Myron


-----Original Message-----
From: notabene [mailto:notabene]On
Behalf Of Mary Bernard
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 3:00 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
Subject: re: key scan codes


David

>On my Win XP installation of NB6.1 the xpl program worked fine--except
>that I couldn't get out of it.

On my Win 98 installation it worked just fine. It reports all unshifted
keypresses as the numbers I would expect (a=30, etc.), not the five-digit
numbers you suggest. To my fascination, it reports Shift A as 543, Ctrl A
as 2078, and shift alt A as 1566.

Mary


Mary Bernard
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