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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!titan!hal!jbm
- From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
- Subject: Help wanted identifying keyboard layout
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.233616.11969@trl.oz.au>
- Sender: root@trl.oz.au (System PRIVILEGED Account)
- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:36:16 GMT
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- I have finished writing an editor able to display two or
- more alphabets at once (text mode, not graphics), but
- one of its feature (displaying the keyboard on screen)
- is a horrible kludge. I simply assumed the same
- keyboard as mine, which makes it about worthless
- for anyone with a German, French, or other keyboard.
-
- Would anyone know of a way to "interrogate" the keyboard
- as it were, so that for each key, it returns the
- corresponding ASCII (not scan code)? And of finding
- out the layout of the keys, which, to my ignorant
- eyes, come in bewildering varieties, especially when
- you try to allow for laptops and book-sized PCs?
-