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- There is one bug that has always existed in E/DOS that has
- consistently annoyed me (a registered Executor user). (Well, actually
- there is another one -- if E/DOS is started in 50 row text mode, when
- it exits, you are left in 50 row mode, but the font is 8x16. But you
- already know that :).)
-
- The Macintosh has two ways of dealing with the keyboard:
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- 1) When a non-modifier key is pressed, released, or repeated, it
- generates an event, passing the keycode to the event handler.
- 2) It maintains a array containing an element for each key on the
- keyboard. This array includes modifiers (Shift, Ctrl, etc.). For each
- element, a nonzero value signals that the corresponding key is being
- held down.
-
- On the PC, extended key scancodes are prefixed by 0xE0. For example,
- the scancode for Left Alt is 0x38, while the scancode for Right Alt is
- 0xE0 0x38. In (1), E/DOS handles this fine. But in (2), it ignores
- occurences of 0xE0. If Left Ctrl is pressed and held, then Right Ctrl
- is pressed and released, E/DOS will forget that Left Ctrl is being
- held down. Even worse, Left and Right Alt are both translated to
- Command; there is no way to make the emulated Mac think you are
- holding down Option. This is significant in at least one program: Spin
- Doctor.
-
- To the people at ARDI: please consider fixing this in a future version
- of E/DOS. And thank you for an outstanding product!
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- David Ellsworth
- davidells@aol.com
- davidell@ix.netcom.com
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