Simon Cooke wrote: > The problem's this: Right-Alt, Right-Shift and Right-Ctrl aren't always > available on all machines. (Some laptops don't have them - mine doesn't have > right-ctrl or right-alt, for instance). Also, on European machines, > Right-Alt is used as "Alt-Gr" to generate graphics characters for different > language-layout keyboards. :)
Alt-Gr is effectively Right-Alt (same scancode), as that's what my UK keyboard has (tho it often effectively presses left-ctrl too) - it's not needed for it's normal special character use on a SAM so it won't really be missed. As long as there is an equivalent key on most keyboards (I thought there would be) it shouldn't be a problem; if not then it'll have to go somewhere else, along with the INV (currently keypad enter I think). Does your keyboard have anything in the place of right-alt that could be the same really? Right-shift isn't really needed, but I use it in conjunction with Left-shift for something strange. On my UK keyboard " is Shift-2, but pressing both shifts and 2 actually gives the copyright symbol, becuase the 2 and one shift are toggled when generating the SAM " symbol, but the remaining shift acts on that to give the copyright symbol. Not terribly useful, but it helped me check some combinations and I thought I'd leave it in. Don't worry, I don't have Shift-2 hard-wired for " - it should work normally wherever it's located on your keyboard! Right-ctrl is currentl used as an extra for SAM Cntrl, for when the left-alt option is disabled to use the key for menu access instead. It might be that users of keyboards without a right-ctrl will just have to suffer using left-alt (well, until Dave Laundon's key mapping idea is implemented - next e-mail!). Si
