Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/23/14:04:39
Hi Shawn, you replied to ratbag:
> ratbag writes:
> >Would some kind person please tell me how to go about assigning a UK
> >keyboard to work wth RHIDE (The new one out last week).
>
> I'm confused as to why this would be neccessary - I have a UK keyboard,
I don't know much about UK kbds but the german ones have the Y and Z
swapped (if I take as reference an US kbd ;-)
> and it works just fine with Rhide. I imagine Rhide uses DOS functions
No.
> for keyboard access, so all you need to do is configure your machine
> properly and it should work. I'm no DOS guru, but the relevant lines
> from my system seem to be:
Nope, we are using BIOS.
As we are using BIOS some things can fail in a non-US keyboard, not
the common characters like A, but CTRL+A.
DOS hooks the BIOS so if you configure DOS you'll get A when you
press A but DOS doesn't traslate the SCAN codes for the keys so here
appears the problem. I sent to Robert (some weeks ago) a package to
configure the RHIDE keyboard (because is the editor (mine editor) the
problem).
Talking about keyboards and specially to Shawn, I have a modified
version of the Allegro keyboard files that handles the following:
1) Num-Lock
2) Caps-Lock
3) The keyboard leds
I made that for my editor but Robert refused to use interrupts, so
I didn't follow with that. May be you are interesed in the code.
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