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Hi Martin,
On 12.7.2022 13.37, Martin wrote:
Am 12.07.22 um 09:29 schrieb Thomas Huth:
Since it's only happening for ^ and ´ ... do you maybe have dead keys
enabled? What happens if you open a text editor and e.g. type ^
followed by
an "o" ? Do you get ^o or do you get ô ? In the latter case, please
try to
disable the dead keys in your keyboard settings and try again.
That's it. :-/ I just did choose the "normal" German keyboard layout as
ever, where I also can type in frensh accents and so on. But for this
case it is counter productive.
I changed it in XFCE to "Deutsch ohne Akzenttasten" and now it works
flowlessly.
Thanks for the help.
Background info: Currently I try to find a key mapping configuration for
Hatari and EmuTOS, so that one can use a normal contemporary keyboard
and all characters are mapped like available on the keyboard. This may
not be of use for specific ST games, that just use the scancode, but
maybe a good solution for all emulator users for TOS and GEM programs.
Nobody wants to keep differing key mappings in mind, if not needed.
The great challenge may be, how to map AltGr key combinations, since
this key is, at it seems, just known for the Milan and not for Atari
machines with normal TOS. Keytbl (XBIOS) does not know of a modifyer key
AltGr.
Maybe I could map AltGR to ST's Alternate and then use these combination
for @{[]}\~ and |Better first i will get an overview, how "Alternate"
normally is used on the ST.
AltGr is modifier for Hatari shortcuts, so you should not map it to
Atari key, only normal ALT key. This is because same key combo doing
something both in the emulator, and (partially) in the emulated machine,
would just lead to grief.
FYI: scancodes that Hatari generates are based on what SDL provides
(them and their keyboard locations are based on USB spec):
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Scancode
SDL scancodes do not support all characters marked on PC keyboard keys
though, some of them are only available as symbolic ones, coming e.g.
from dead-key key-combining. SDL symbolic key codes do not support all
keys either though:
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_Keycode
Hatari converts those then to Atari scancodes at similar locations on
Atari keyboard.
TOS keymaps supported by different TOS versions are documented by Thorsten:
http://tho-otto.de/keyboards/
In general I think mapping host keys to Atari keys would belong to
Hatari, but it's a bit more complicated there, as Hatari cannot just
override TOS keytables like your program does.
(Hatari needs to find out the keyboard table currently in effect, and
map scancodes to keys in the currently active one. My (very) WIP code
does that based on the currently active country / language code.)
- Eero