c162-br@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young) (05/20/88)
Well, not a day goes by that does not bring more questions than
answers. If you have the feeling that this is leading to a quesiton, then
you are right.
Last night, I happened to glance through Byte's review of the 1040
(this was an old issue), and the article mentions that Atari included two
new AES calls in the ROMs, called form_button and form_keyboard. My
question is, are these the same calls as the ones that Tim Oren gave in
column #13's fancy form_do? If not, what are they? Does anybody know
what they're used for?
While we're at it, I thought about the underscore bug, and I think
I have a solution, if you are willing to use your own form_do routine (or
just recycle Tim Oren's). When you are getting keyboard input, you could
check to see if the input key was an underscore, and if it is, then go
through the validation string, find out what character position you're
currently editing, and change the validation character to an X. After
the keystroke, change it back to whatever it was before. This should
avoid any underscore crashes, no matter what version of TOS you're using.
Does this sound right? (I realize it's a pretty messy hack, in terms of
the amount of effort, but if you want to do something on the ST, sometimes
you have to spend more effort and time.)
Finally, thank you to all those who sent me the Pro GEM source
code I requested. I have one more request. One of the ARCed files
included source listing for columns 14 up to 16. If somebody has the
textual part for these columns, I would really appreciate it if it could
be sent to me at:
seitz@cory.Berkeley.EDU
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