CDTAXW@IRISHMVS.BITNET.UUCP (04/06/87)
How about just sticking with Apple conventions across the product lines? Apple key refers to what most pre-GS owners know as the Open-Apple key. Option key refers to the Closed-Apple key. If you use these terms (Apple and Option) you will be correct from the Apple //e through the Macintosh II and will also follow the Apple Standard Keyboard... Mark
GXH101@PSUVM.BITNET (SCOTT HOLLINGSWORTH) (03/28/89)
This is actually a reply to another article, but our site is in the process of implementing a new version of software to read newsgroups. Therefore I have lost the subject line of that article. The apple keys (one of them has become the option key) have no ascii code number. You can check the condition of these keys (also the j-stick keys) by peeking a location in memory for each key. Sorry I don't have those mem locations with me now. Anyway, these keys are supported differently than all the others on thekeyboard. All the other keys have ascii equivilents. Some keys are control keys for example; <RETURN>, <TAB>, <ESC>, and the arrows. The pf keys on mainframe terminals are esc and that number. To get pf1 type <ESC>1, and to get pf2 type <ESC>2, pf11 and 12 are <ESC>- and <ESC>= respectively.The key referred to as rubout or clear is equal to <ESC>(period) and pa1 is <ESC>(comma) there are others but I can manage witout them so I don't have them memorized. I think this will help. NOTE: <ESC> = "ctrl-[" = acsii code 27. | ____ | Scott Hollingsworth (deadhead) (GXH101@PSUVM.BITNET) | // %/\\ | RD 2 Box 378 | || %/ || | Ebensburg, PA 15931 | \\%___// | | \^/\^/ | | :::: |