d@alice.UucP (Daniel Rosenberg) (03/08/86)
Ok. So I don't have my Manx compiler yet, and I have to deal with AmigaBASIC
(which isn't so bad for BASIC.) I've asked this question once, but got
no responses. Please, please help. I'll be forever grateful, and you'll
feel all warm inside, and happy, and...
Anyway, I'm am programming something that uses foreign characters-
namely a few consonants {c, g, h, j, s, u} with circumflexes over them.
I plan on detecting their input on the keyboard through an ALT key
combination. AmigaBASIC doesn't seem to think anyone would ever pay attention
to ALT key combinations. So how can I implement this at all? Some kind
of library routine?
Part II: These characters (the Esperanto ^c, ^g, ^h, ^j, ^s, and ^u,
specifically) don't need the circumflexes beside them... they need their
circumflexes OVER them. (Except for u, since what appears to be a circumflex
here is an umlaut.) How, (oh how?) do I {redefine, add to, make my own)
character sets? I mean, this is like generally useful information.
Please help.
And thanks in advance.
By the way, this is less important, but has been bugging me for a while.
In the CLI, like, when I CD DF0: to cd to a new disk (and I do it a lot,
having but one drive, and not liking to use up too much memory loading
stuff into RAM: and missing COMMAND.COM) how to I get CLI to look
in DF0:C/ for commands, and not {BOOTUP_DISK}:C/ ?
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