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<p>My issue is that we migh be introducing some new code here without having them mean anything anywhere else…</p>
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<p>Yes. It would be better if we had access to both the "keysym" and the "keycode" in the Smalltalk image. Unfortunately, there is only a single value reserved for this in our event structure. So, we have to merge both value ranges in a meaningful way. I just did that. You can restore the "keysym" in the image by setting 0xff__ again.</p>
<p>Do you have a better Idea on merging "keysym" (special keys and alpha-num latin-1) and "keycode" (for shifted alpha-num keys) into a single value? That single-byte lookup table in Squeak is quite handy ... and fast. :-) And what the other two platforms provide.</p>
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<p>Also, what does "virtual" mean here? are we trying to map to the thing printed on the keyborard or to the position of the key pressed?</p>
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<p>The concept stems from the MSDN documentation. I elaborated on this topic several times on squeak-dev already:</p>
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<p>The code reads <code>xkey2sqVirtualKeyCode</code>, which clarifies its meaning within the Smalltalk image.</p>

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