2008/11/20 K. K. Subramaniam <subbukk at gmail.com>:
> On Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 5:18:23 am 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 ;-)
> "Hardware is really just software crystallized early. It is there to make
> program schemes run as efficiently as possible. But far too often the
> hardware has been presented as a given and it is up to software designers to
> make it appear reasonable." - (1992) Alan Kay in
>  http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_VI.html
>
> The functional keys are a roundabout way of creating programmable buttons. The
> buttons are physically embedded in hardware and logic is split between
> various layers in the software stack. Squeak has a much easier way of
> creating soft buttons, so its virtual machine does not emulate f-keys.
>

The functional keys is sitting here, before your eyes, why we should
make use of them?
Is there something wrong to be able to map some actions like open
browser, open help, close window etc?


> Subbu
>


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