What's the interrupt key on a French Mac keyboard?

I thought I worked on this once.

(* wiz pauses to search "Cmd-." on mantis)

Yep. Serge did a fix which I tweaked. 
Fix was added to 3.9.

Luckily Mantis remembers everything:

http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=2135
Summary: Cmd-. don't work with various Mac Os X
keyboard layout

Hth,

Yours in service and curiosity, --Jerome Peace	

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>John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com 
>Sat Feb 16 18:39:12 UTC 2008 
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>Historically the interrupt key was special in older
pre OS-X operating  
>systems.
>
>When we migrated to event driven keyboard input in
the VM about  8  
>years back we switch
>just to providing the keyboard data to the smalltalk
code. This is  
>processed in
>
>
>EventSensor>>processEvent: evt
>	"Process a single event. This method is run at high
priority."
>	| type |
>	type _ evt at: 1.
>
>	"Check if the event is a user interrupt"
>	(type = EventTypeKeyboard and:[(evt at: 4) = 0 and:[
>		((evt at: 3) bitOr: ((evt at: 5) bitShift: 8)) =
interruptKey]])
>			 ifTrue:["interrupt key is meta - not reported as
event"
>					^interruptSemaphore signal].
>,,,
>
>and we have
>initialize
>	"Initialize the receiver"
>	mouseButtons := 0.
>	mousePosition := 0 @ 0.
>	keyboardBuffer := SharedQueue new.
>	self setInterruptKey: (interruptKey ifNil: [$.
asciiValue bitOr:  
>16r0800 ]). 	"cmd-."
>	interruptSemaphore := (Smalltalk specialObjectsArray
at: 31) ifNil:  
>[Semaphore new].
>	self flushAllButDandDEvents.
>	inputSemaphore := Semaphore new.
>	hasInputSemaphore := false.
>
>
>where we use the setInterruptKey: to set the
interruptKey value.  For  
>historical reasons this
>also sets the keycode and semaphore in the VM. If a
newer VM works  
>with an image from 10 years back it
>interacts with the class InputSensor and signals the 

>interruptSemaphore when a cmd-. is pressed,
>or actually whatever the setInterruptKey: was set to.
>
>In looking I saw this old email
>Serge.Stinckwich at info.unicaen.fr
>October 24, 2005 9:49:40 AM PDT (CA)
>> Here is a changeset to allow to use the shift key
for the Cmd-.
>> I test it with the french and american keyboard.
>> Could people with different keyboard layout
(belgian, spanish, ...)  
>> could also test this changeset ?
>>
>> Thanks you,
>>
>> --                                                 
       oooo
>> Dr. Serge Stinckwich                               
     OOOOOOOO
>> Université de Caen>CNRS UMR 6072>GREYC>MAD         
     OOESUGOO
>> http://purl.org/net/SergeStinckwich                
      oooooo
>> Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love:
it)]   \  /
>>                                                    
       ##
>>
>>
>>
>> 'From Squeak3.8 of ''5 May 2005'' [latest update:
#6665] on 24  
>> October 2005 at 6:42:13 pm'!
>>
>> !EventSensor methodsFor: 'private-I/O' stamp: 'zz
10/24/2005 18:41'!
>> processEvent: evt
>> 	"Process a single event. This method is run at
high priority."
>> 	| type |
>> 	type := evt at: 1.
>>
>> 	"Check if the event is a user interrupt"
>> 	(type = EventTypeKeyboard and:[(evt at: 4) = 0
and:[
>> 		((evt at: 3) bitOr: (((evt at: 5) bitAnd:8)
bitShift: 8)) =  
>> interruptKey]])
>> 			 ifTrue:["interrupt key is meta - not reported
as event"
>> 					^interruptSemaphore signal].
>>
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>On Feb 16, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Tom Phoenix wrote:
>
>> On Feb 15, 2008 7:00 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab
at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> It's a weird question but we just got it ;-) Since
the period  
>>> appears to
>>> be a shifted symbol it seems that pressing
Cmd-Shift-Period doesn't
>>> result in a user interrupt? If anyone knows the
answer I'd  
>>> appreciate it.
>>
>> The more I study this issue, the more confused I
get. As I understand
>> things, the key sequence for canceling an operation
in progress on Mac
>> OS X is supposed to be Command + period, including
the shift key if
>> that's what's needed. But I also hear that there's
been much confusion
>> among application developers, so some people with
French AZERTY
>> keyboards use Command + / in some applications. It
may be that you've
>> found a bug in the VM, but at the moment I can't
find an up-to-date
>> reference on Apple's site that says how this is
supposed to be done.
>>
>> This response wouldn't be complete if I didn't
remind you to check
>> that the cmdDotEnabled preference item is enabled
in your image.
>>
>> Good luck with it!
>>
>> --Tom Phoenix
>>
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