[comp.sys.mac.programmer] MacPlus keyboard mapping with System 7

bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner) (06/04/91)

From what I've read in the technical notes and observed on my aging
Mac 512Ke, it appears that as recently as System 6.0.7 the non-ADB
keyboard machines did not map the keyboard with KCHR.  Instead, the
original keyboard translation code (INIT 1 and INIT 2) was used to
translate the keycodes into character codes.  The Control Panel gives
only two choices for keyboard mapping: domestic and international.

Did this change in System 7.0 for the MacPlus?  Are keyboard events
mapped into character codes according to a KCHR resource?  If not, how
does the Script Manager cope with its inability to remap the keyboard
when the current script is changed?
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