Re: [hatari-devel] Suggestion for enhanced keymap table format

[Vincent Barrilliot <vincent.barrilliot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Eero


CKBD definitely supports it under TOS, and EmuTOS supports it too 
(search kb_altnum in bios\ikbd.c), maybe TOS 4.04 supports it too as I 
remember my sister using it to type Spanish characters whenwas studying 
Spanish (but can't remember if CKBD was running then, I'll check that 
later on my Falcon)

As you say, there are probably limitations/edge cases with keys being up 
or down, the same as there were in other situations with shift/alt, but 
in general I think there's more value having that in than out, to offer 
complete support of the PC's keyboard. The edge cases  where people do 
ALT-µ are pretty slim... And we can have a switch to just disable 
support for it.

What doesn't work in what I did ?


Vincent

Le 25/10/2021 à 01:01, Eero Tamminen a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> On 14.10.2021 21.19, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > On 14.10.2021 9.44, Vincent Barrilliot wrote:
> > > This applies to PressedModifiers only. STScanCodes still needs to be 
> > > an array so we can specify ALT-xxx sequences.
> >
> > Ah, that's a very good point!
> >
> > (Somehow I had not understood that your
> > "Max is alt-a-b-c" comment in code meant those.)
>
> Which Atari SW supports that?  Neither EmuTOS
> nor real TOS seems to support it, so I could
> not have tested it.
>
> Also, I assume that each of the XXX digit keys
> must be raised before simulating pressing the next
> digit key down, and there probably needs to be
> some emulated time to have elapsed between those,
> for them to register properly inside emulation.
>
> Implementing something like that (emulation
> running between inserting of the ALT-xxx digits)
> would be *way* too complex.
>
>
>     - Eero
>
> PS. except for this last item, the new patches are
> ready.  I have not tested them yet, except that
> they do build.