On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:48:23 +0100, Andreas Raab wrote:

>  > So, my question is, is squeak images aware of existance of functional  
> keys?
>
> Short answer: No. And I'll leave the long answer to someone else ;-)

:)

Just a thought and perhaps to make life easier for VM maintainers and the  
user base: the .image could tell the VM about function key mappings, so  
that the .image can (re-)assign mappings for any application needs.

One example: the current F2 mapping on windoze is O.K. because it does its  
job but there is always the administrator who wants to make it fit their  
corporate policy.

> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
>
> Igor Stasenko wrote:
>> On my win desktop, a functional keys (F1 - F12) generating a key codes
>> 'p' F2 'r' 's' 't' ... 'x' 'y' 'z' '{'
>> which i can see when turning events with:
>> HandMorph showEvents: true
>>  all of them seem ignored by image somewhere in EventSensor, except F2
>> which pops up the VM Preferences menu (but this completely handled by
>> windows VM).
>>  I wonder is there's any way to use/handle these keys in squeak in
>> platform transparent way?
>> Since squeak originally came from macs, image expects key codes in
>> 'mac' format. But i have no idea how things working on macs.
>>  In old ages not all keyboards has functional keys , some of them has 5
>> to 10 functional keys.
>> But now, i think it is standard to all keyboards to come with at least
>> 10 functional keys.
>> And macs is not exception
>> http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/07/imac-slim-keyboard-1.jpg
>> :)
>>  So, my question is, is squeak images aware of existance of functional  
>> keys?
>> And second, if yes, then what correct key codes VM should generate to
>> make image feel happy ?
>>
>

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