[fpc-pascal] ptccrt missing keys

Nikolay Nikolov nickysn at gmail.com
Sun May 28 15:51:48 CEST 2017



On 05/26/2017 10:49 PM, James Richters wrote:
>> It's great that it's finally working for you. And yes, ptccrt supports most alt and ctrl key combinations, but if you find some key combination missing, please report it - it is easy to add.
> I could really use F11 and F12  including shift, alt, and crtl if possible from the prccrt graphics window.  I suspect there is some fundamental reason why F11 and F12 aren't usable, because F11 and F12 don't work in crt either.  But here is what does work in crt that would be great if would also work in ptccrt.
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> <snip>lots of missing keys</snip>
Unfortunately, all of the missing keys and differences from ptccrt 
(including the very odd ones) stem from the fact that ptccrt behaves 
_exactly_ like the crt unit in Turbo Pascal 7 under DOS, with a 100% IBM 
compatible keyboard and BIOS. This includes the lack of support for 
extended keys (like F11 and F12). The Windows crt unit doesn't conform 
strictly to that, however, so that's why there are differences. I don't 
want to sacrifice the DOS/TP7 crt unit compatibility, so I'll have to 
think of something, but it'll take a little time. Perhaps I'll add 
different keyboard compatibility "modes" or something like that.

Nikolay



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