On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, gerard patel wrote:
> At 12:05 AM 12/10/00 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >Aha, that patch *did* use the VK key states to check the Control keys. I
> >discussed the problem with Jutta on IRC today, but did not have time to
> >search for the patch I suspected (the one this reverses) to check whether
> >it checked X or VK key states (the former wouldn't be a problem, the
> >latter is). But now you looked it up, so now I don't have to...
> <snip>
>
> Should not such a patch use tables for the different configurations of
> national keyboards ?
Why? There are only so many kinds of Ctrl-keystrokes that can generate
ASCII codes between 0 and 31... it's not language-specific.
> I don't see why you say that using X state instead of the
> VK key states should be all right...
Well, it wouldn't be a problem because the X keyboard state wouldn't have
Control modifier set when the user presses AltGr, of course, what else?
> >Though I think I once checked what AltGr-Del did under Windoze, nothing
> >happened, so there must be some mechanism to differentiate synthesized
> >AltCtrl and real AltCtrl...)
>
> I just tested it and Alt Gr Del generates a Del character with Alt and Ctrl flags
>set;
> that's of course at the user interface level.
Well, with "nothing happened", I mean that it didn't reboot or anything...
and it would be funny if it did.
