Re: Control key problems with vDosXy?

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Wow Carl, so far so good! This is the first time in all my Xy
configurations over the years that I have needed to do this. Can you
possibly explain why it is necessary and what it does? Or is it a
kind of sacred mystery? Anyway, it seems to work. I'll know better
after a couple of days. - - Many thanks - - Bill
Hi Carl, since I am still quite bothered by this 'sticky control
key' phenomenon in VDosXy - - I have just tried your suggestion
below of renaming CTRL to CNTL in the keyboard file and will see if
that works.
The problem does not exist in any other program. I am wondering if
it might have something to do with handrest signals on my particular
laptop (Dell XPS 15 late 2013 QuadHD+). I need to move my
configuration over to another computer to see if the problem exists
there too. Anyway, will report back.

At 21/12/2014 23:18, you wrote:
Reply to note from Bill Troop  Sun, 21 Dec 2014
22:31:10 +0000

Bill,

TABLE FUNC will give you a list of all the 2-char functions
and their uses. There you'll see the entry for func IR:

"Insert Replacement into temporary or personal dictionary without
loading Spelling dictionary"

Nothing jumps out at me from your TABLE=CTRL listing, but I have two
thoughts:

1) The fault, if any, in the KBD file may lie in TABLE=. What are
the assignments for 29= and 99=, i.e., the two Ctrl keys?

2) In any event, try the old trick of renaming the shifting keys to
non-standard names. I use:

KAPS=58,T:C
SHFT=42,54
XALT=56,98
CNTL=29,99

Obviously you need to makee these changes globally throughout the
KBD file.

Can't hurt, might help.

--
Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx