At 11:40 pm +0000 4/12/99, Si Owen wrote: >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!
One idea you could consider, which Ian described to me (I think he'd used it in his X spectrum emulator) would be that Left-Shift produces the keystroke you'd expect from looking at your PC's keyboard (eg, left-shift and '0' gives ')') wheras Right-Shift directly corresponds to the Shift key on the Sam (eg, right-shift and '0' gives '~'). Then again, not all keyboards can distinguish between left and right shift, including all USB keyboards I've tried. Frankly, the idea of implementing all this on the iMac is giving me nightmares... Andrew -- -- Andrew Collier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- My other -- http://mnemotech.ucam.org -- .sig is a -- Part 3 Materials Science, Cambridge -- PDF file --
