Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:38 AM, BretJ <bretj...@juno.com> wrote: > > I personally would like to see modern DOS applications (the few that are > still being developed) support the multimedia keys, power management keys, > and scroll wheels on keyboards and mice.
Less useful in things like cmdline compilers like DJGPP, of course. Also, not every keyboard has all the extra keys (though I'm sure you're aware of that). This one here (Lenovo desktop keyboard), for instance, lacks anything extra except for Fn, only one Win key (not two), Menu, and I forget whatever-the-hell that weird orange LVT button above the keypad does. (Deprecated XKEYB had some optional support for 0xE0 or whatever keys, not sure about current KEYB. TDE editor can optionally use the Win key to bring up the menu with alternate of Ctrl-'\' also. I know Eric Auer buys 102-key keyboards without the dumb Win keys.) EDIT: Hmmm, oops, I guess Fn + F1-F8 is supposed to do some multimedia stuff (orange pics below the "F7" etc. descriptions), though I never use it. Typically Fn is for things like my laptop (or so I thought) which lack some obvious keys (and even, oddly, Break, on my current one, probably so they could put an annoying "eject disc" button, argh, gotta love accidentally pressing that). > Modern (USB) keyboards and mice > almost always have them, but DOS applications, even modern ones, almost > never support them. > > I'm just wondering what others think about this, and how "important" they > see this lack of support being? As for the scroll wheel, you have to have a recent version of CuteMouse (e.g. after 1.9, IIRC). Some few apps do support it (e.g. Blocek, Hammer of Thyrion, GVEDIT, NDN, Mpxplay, Arachne, 4DOS, etc.) but not too many else. Probably because most other DOS mouse drivers and DOS emulations (DOSEMU, WinXP) don't support it. As much as I avoid the mouse and prefer the keyboard, admittedly sometimes I tend to fall back on the scroll wheel, esp. if reading forum posts. But sometimes that's because it's awkward to regain focus with the keyboard between (or within) most apps. (As you know, some things require a mouse exclusively, which I think is bad design.) P.S. The buzz is all around tablets and touchscreens these days. While I can (barely) see the point, it seems bad for things like text input. But I guess if all you're doing is browsing around or playing (very) simplistic games, it doesn't matter. For some reason, "modern" people have a hard time understanding that one size doesn't fit all, as they often try to cram one paradigm into every solution (square pegs into round holes). But anyways, enough ranting from me .... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
