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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Niggling little problems
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 17:26:16 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- There is another niggling problem I have with the arrow keys. It is really
- the application writer's problem. There is a utility I picked up somewhere
- called HexEdit. In many ways, it is real nice. However, one problem it
- has is that it doesn't recognized the 'new' arrow keys (the ones between
- the regular keyboard and the keypad). The codes returned from the Kbd
- calls are different for the two and the programmer either doesn't have or never
- uses the non-keypad arrows. Anyway it is rather annoying since I never use
- the keypad for arrows except in this case. It is too bad there isn't a way
- to force the keyboard to return the same codes for both. It would have to
- be a toggle like caps lock, num lock, etc, since there are applications
- that depend on the difference. Anyway, I wanted a place to record this
- 'complaint' in the hopes that programmers will see and avoid doing this
- to us users in the future.
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