Re: Keyboard handling [Corinna]

["Francis VIVAT" <francis dot vivat at cetp dot ipsl dot fr>]

Same behavior on french keyboard.

Ctrl(L or R)+Alt(L or R) permit to reach the special caracters, like AltGr does.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
To: "cygx" <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: vendredi 20 avril 2001 13:53
Subject: Re: Keyboard handling [Corinna]


> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:32:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 1) Ctrl_L down, Ctrl_L up
> >
> > KD VK: 00000011 SC: 0000001d fExtended: 0 fAltDown: 0 fUp: 0 fMenuMode: 0
> > KU VK: 00000011 SC: 0000001d fExtended: 0 fAltDown: 0 fUp: 1 fMenuMode: 0
> >
> > 2) Alt_L down, Alt_L up
> >
> > SD VK: 00000012 SC: 00000038 fExtended: 0 fAltDown: 1 fUp: 0 fMenuMode: 0
> > SU VK: 00000012 SC: 00000038 fExtended: 0 fAltDown: 0 fUp: 1 fMenuMode: 0
> >
> > 3) AltGr down, AltGr up
> >
> > KD VK: 00000011 SC: 0000001d fExtended: 0 fAltDown: 0 fUp: 0 fMenuMode: 0
> > KD VK: 00000012 SC: 00000038 fExtended: 1 fAltDown: 1 fUp: 0 fMenuMode: 0
> > SU VK: 00000011 SC: 0000001d fExtended: 0 fAltDown: 1 fUp: 1 fMenuMode: 0
> > KU VK: 00000012 SC: 00000038 fExtended: 1 fAltDown: 0 fUp: 1 fMenuMode: 0
>
> BTW: If you wonder why Alt_R returns _exactly_ the same as if
> Ctrl+Alt has been pressed: It _is_ the same. For example the
> Ascii character '@', which is on the german keyboard on
> AltGr+Q is also reachable by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Q. I don't know
> if that helps but I'm under the impression that could eliminate
> all special handling for AltGr if Ctrl+Alt works as expected.
>
> Am I missing something?
> Corinna
>
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