Re: [AD] Bug in exflame.c

[Jason Wilkins <fenix@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> The input functions deal with numeric values, range 0-2^32-1, which are the 
> same in any encoding. The difference between ASCII, UTF-8, Unicode, etc, is 
> just what happens when you want to store that number in memory, which you 
> never need to do (other than as an int, which is different to putting it in 
> a string).

That still doesn't answer my question.  What format is the user expecting
ureadkey input to be in?  Is it supposed to be the same format as
U_CURRENT?


> > What I need a comprehensive answer to is, what should cause keypressed to
> > be true and what should cause ureadkey to return?
> 
> The same as getch() in DOS. ie. anything that has meaning in itself, as an 
> actual keypress rather than a modifier which will only affect the meaning of 
> subsequent keypresses.

So, alt should not cause keypressed() to return true? But under this
definition, neither would alt-T.  If that is true then _do_menu() would
not be able to intrepret keyboard shortcuts.

And, although the dos version does not get alt-tab, I would think that the
Windows version does.  I don't recall there being any special code in its
keyboard driver to handle that.

I never imagined how tedious and picky implementing a keyboard driver
would be ^_^

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