This is exactly what I'm talking about. No offense to whomever wrote the
keyboard mapping program, but it deviates from our real goals of application
programming.
My 1 cent.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacques G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [U2] Using Esc


> > I am sick of having to
> > write filter routines for
> > the control characters. It doesn't look good to the
> > users either.
>
> On the plus side, many terminal emulators can have
> their keyboard re-programmed so that when you press a
> key it sends the key that you want.  I've used this
> feature to send the proper arrow escape sequences on
> bad VT220 emulators.  Once the terminal emulator is
> properly configured the setup file for it can become
> part of the standard installation procedure for the
> user. So if the escape key sends CHAR(251), it can be
> changed on the emulator without writing new code.
>
> I know that Hostaccess and Hummingbird allow for
> keyboard re-programming.  I've used Accuterm before
> but don't remember if you can re-program its keyboard
> as well.
>
> On my emulator, I've configured F12 to do:  S^M so
> that when I step through the debugger I only need to
> press one key.
>
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