Re: [hatari-devel] Keyboard mappings?

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 11/01/2016 11:13 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> I think there is/was a reason for mapping PAGEUP to 0x63 and PAGEDOWN to
> 0x64 ... if you have a closer look at the Atari keyboard, there are
> four keys that can not be found on a normal PC keyboard: HELP, UNDO,
> KP-"(" and KP-")". So on a PC keyboard, they should be mapped to keys
> that can not be found on a normal Atari keyboard - SCROLLOCK, PRINT,
> PAGEUP and PAGEDOWN.
>
> The symbolic mapping uses:
>
>  SCROLLOCK <=> UNDO (0x61)
>  PRINT     <=> HELP (0x62)

Thanks, I missed these.  They seem to work fine (with SDL2 build).


>  PAGEUP    <=> KP-"(" (0x63)
>  PAGEDOWN  <=> KP-")" (0x64)
>
> ==> If you change PAGEUP and PAGEDOWN here, you should change SCROLLOCK
> and PRINT, too.
>
> The SDL1 scancode mapping uses:
>
>  PAGEUP     <=> HELP (0x62)
>  PAGEDOWN   <=> UNDO (0x61)
>
> Scroll lock and print are mapped via scancode offset here, not sure
> whether they end up with a sane Atari key, though...
>
> The SDL2 scancode mapping uses:
>
>  SCROLLLOCK <=> UNDO (0x61)
>  PRINT      <=> HELP (0x62)
>  PAGEUP     <=> HELP (0x62)
>  PAGEDOWN   <=> UNDO (0x61)
>
> ==> So the keypad parentheses can not by typed at all here. We should
> likely change SCROLLOCK and PRINT here, too.

Would you have time to fix this and update the Hatari
manual page & manual?


	- Eero