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From: "yeep" <yeep AT xs4all DOT nl>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 03:04:00 +0100
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>Why not sticky key facilities for the alt key such that if a particular
>combination is used it toggles them on and off.  Maybe alt-s, don't know
>since
>someone else may already use that combination.  Once the sticky keys are 
>on
>any key that's not on the number pad that's hit generates an error beep.
>The sticky key mode could also adjust the numlock state as well.
>once that's done, we're down to logical selection of numbers for
>functions.
>One question I have is whether numbers could be entered higher than 256
>and if so could any
>response be elicited from those entries once done.  If that's possible
>the feasible limit is 256-999 and
>our sticky key mode might automatically add that 255 to every value
>entered to help provide a little
>user protection too.  I know mskermit has some pretty unique scan codes
>that it uses and generates so this might be possible.

Why not use the same facility my organizer does?
Let's say that pressing a certain key combo (ctrl-alt-s, for instance)
loads a special font (with possibly more than 256 chars) and a selection
menu.
You then select the special character you want.
This way you won't need to remember all those funny numerical values of all
those funny chars.

I think this could prove a problem for gui's and stuff, though.
But it's just an idea

	Yeep