From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Mar 31 23:18:28 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Message-ID: <424C6842.3070206@highlandsun.com> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:14:42 -0800 From: Howard Chu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050318 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?QWRhbSBLxYJvYnVrb3dza2k=?= Cc: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] New AES keyboard messages References: <1111344400.12169.50.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> <424B0943.3000706@gabo.pl> <1112242300.10960.20.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> <424B8F47.7040803@gabo.pl> <1112294969.24071.20.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> <424C65AA.90709 In-Reply-To: <424C65AA.9070900@gabo.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by highlandsun.propagation.net id j2VLEeLO012358 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: hyc@highlandsun.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by wh58-508.st.uni-magdeburg.de id j2VLISrP006862 Adam Kłobukowski wrote: > Evan K. Langlois napisał(a): > >> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 07:48 +0200, Adam Kłobukowski wrote: >> >>> That is the basic idea, but note that I wish that Shift, Control, Alt >>> to be reported like other keys, so application could know that Shift, >>> Alt, Control are pressed alone. >> Oh yeah. In the proposed hack^h^h^h^h "interface modification", the >> KEYSTATE event would report the status of the "modifier" keys as well. >> You wouldn't get the ascii equivalent, but you'd get the scancode in the >> key portion and the status of the keys in the usual place, when they go >> up or down. > Why do you call that solution a hack? Is there anything unclean here? I think Evan has already demonstrated that he's unqualified to render meaningful design feedback. Just ignore him for now, maybe in a few years when he actually has a clue he could offer something useful. -- -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support