[comp.lang.pascal] graphic of keyboard

mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Alan David Mead) (11/29/90)

I need to present a keyboard "graphically" (in text mode) and make
certain keys blink.  

Does anyone have code to do this or perhaps just an ascii "drawing" of
a keyboard?

A PS/2 keyboard would be the best, but an XT or AT layout would be OK
(how many others are there?).

-alan mead : mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
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Alan Mead : mead@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu

J_SCHULL@acc.haverford.edu (Jonathan Schull) (11/29/90)

>>Does anyone have...an ascii "drawing" of a keyboard?

Superkey and some other remapping programs put such images on the screen.
 (in Superkey its the LAYOUT.COM utility).

Sidekick and some other utilities have "screen grabbing" options
that would let you capture the screen image to an ascii file.

You could then incorporate the ascii text into your program.

(Whether the images are copyrighted by the manufacturer is
another question....)

zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) (11/30/90)

 	Try WordPerfect Help function (F3, I believe). You can get the whole
image of the keyboard layout.
	Or if you have a video camera connected to PC, you could digitalize the
image of the keyboard.