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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit 95 and Caps Lock
Date: 28 Nov 1995 13:43:10 GMT
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In article <49e9kg$39@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au>,
Clive Mitchell <cmitchel@nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au> wrote:
>When I have the Caps Lock turned on (standard 101 keyboard) Kermit
>95 seems to shift the entire keyboard. Even doing a show key at
>the Kermit prompt and pressing '1' results in a '!'. Is this an
>oversight on Kermit's part or am I missing something?
>
Neither. It's a bug in Windows 95. The Windows APIs that read the
keyboard at the level at which Kermit reads it (in order to get
scan codes) actually return these values. The same EXE file, when
run on Windows NT, gets proper key values -- that is, Caps Lock is
Caps Lock, not Shift Lock, in NT.
The only way to fix this in Kermit is to change it from a Console
application to full GUI application, which allows us to use a
different set of APIs, which are better supported by Microsoft. We
are working on that now, for this and other reasons.
- Frank