[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Kernel-mt.1287.mcz

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Wed Dec 18 19:28:00 UTC 2019



> On 2019-12-18, at 2:04 AM, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Subbu,
> 
> The Ctrl key is not an anachronism. Its original function, zeroing the upper two bits of the pressed ASCII character, is.

I never knew that but it makes sense.

> In some older games, Ctrl is used as the fire button. If there is no way to see Ctrl, such game could not be implemented in Squeak. Or any application that wants to map Ctrl to a function.

An issue we have to remember is that not all systems will actually send a keypress for 'only' a control (or alt, or command etc) key


tim
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