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- From: amead@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Alan Mead)
- Subject: REQUEST: definitive detect keyboard function
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- Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:34:14 GMT
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- I have to write a little "keyboard exercise" that will force the user to
- hit certain keys (that will be used later).
-
- I'm going to display a graphic and flash the key so I need to know what
- kind of keyboard is attached.
-
- I've seen routines to "detect the type of keyboard" attacked... But I get the
- impression that they are indirect methids. For instance, one routine (which
- is, unfortunately at home or lost) which I copied from PC Magazine specifically
- stated that it detected the 101-key BIOS, not the keyboard itself.
-
- Does anyone have code that cannot fail? Or I don't even know if you can connect a
- AT-style keyboard to a computer with an extended keyboard BIOS??
-
- Thanks very much.
-
- -alan mead
-