Robert Vojta wrote:
mba proposed this (see [1]). To quote him: "While we are at it: what
about MOD3 support for other platforms? PC keyboards have the Windows
key, others also can have additional modifier keys." && "I don't like
that if it is only supported on one platform ..."
That's the reason why I started adding support for MOD3 on Windows and
other platforms as well. But the question is still open - which key on
Windows keyboard? There's Windows or Menu only - no more keys.
Right, I remember now. However when pressing the windows key, the normal
reaction is that the windows startmenu pops up, isn't it ? At the moment
I am not sure though whether this is true also for the right windows key
; I'll check. The context menu key is also already in use for popping of
the context menu. One COULD think about using only the right Alt key
(aka Alt Gr) or the right context menu key for MOD3; however that would
probably be unexpected. If we decide to do that we need a configuration
option for that.
And I don't know even one application which uses Windows key for
shortcuts (same for Linux, I don't know how it is on Solaris ).
On the X11 platforms you can use one of those to mean "meta" which is
used all the time by emacs (though that is the only application that
comes to mind using the meta modifier). This however would be straight
forward.
Question is - does it make sense to add support for MOD3 on Windows?
If it has no sense, the fix is easy. We can pass FALSE (bMod3
parameter) value to the new KeyCode constructor.
Currently I tend to think so. But I'll check when I'm back on my windows
system.
Kind regards, pl
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And those who can't teach, go into administration."
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