Re: Xywrite history

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Robert V. Schmidt wrote:
> Even worse, the cursor keys (Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, etc.) produce
> high-end ASCII characters rather than cursor movements. Again, this is
> with the same keyboard file that works fine under Windows 98.
>
> This last problem has rendered XyWrite unusable for me in XP. If anyone
> has or can point me to a solution, I'll be grateful.
>
> Rob Schmidt
Search the Archives for Tame and Numlock. But laptops often remap their
keys. I once had a laptop with, of course, no number pad. I was
perplexed over entering high ASCII characters without it (this was
before I had discovered Robert's Table Accents), but lo, and behold, it
turned out that the top row numbers on the keyboard were generating the
numberpad scan codes, and so could be used with Ctrl+ALT to enter such
characters. If you were running Xy4, you could use the U2 routine
keycode, which would tell you what scancodes those keys were generating.
There's another routine, IIRC, that ids both press and release
scancodes, but I cannot recall its name right now, and have to run.

Patricia M. Godfrey