{ This file is part of the Free Pascal run time library. A file in Amiga system run time library. Copyright (c) 1998-2002 by Nils Sjoholm member of the Amiga RTL development team. See the file COPYING.FPC, included in this distribution, for details about the copyright. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. **********************************************************************} { DeadKeyConvert When you want Intuition to send you keystrokes, you either get just the simple key-cap type keys (i.e. no cursor or function keys) or you get keycodes, which tell you nothing about what was on the key the user pressed. DeadKeyConvert allows you to receive RAWKEY messages, then translate them into their ANSI key sequences. These are known as cooked keys, and a single keystroke might be converted into as many as four characters (including the CSI). See the ROM Kernel Manual and the Enhancer manual for details. The difference between this and RawKeyConvert is that this also handles the deadkeys - for example, pressing ALT-K, releasing it, and pressing o gives you an o with an umlaut. Also note that some keys will come back with a length of zero - the shift and alt keys, for example. You can probably ignore them. Finally, I'll point out that, since this function calls RawKeyConvert, you need to call OpenConsoleDevice (defined in ConsoleUtils) before using it. } { History: A translation of DeadKeyConvert.p from PCQ Pascal. 26 Aug 2000. nils.sjoholm@mailbox.swipnet.se } unit deadkeys; interface uses exec,intuition,console,inputevent; function DeadKeyConvert(msg : pIntuiMessage; buffer : pchar; bufsize : longint; keymap : pointer): longint; implementation function DeadKeyConvert(msg : pIntuiMessage; buffer : pchar; bufsize : longint; keymap : pointer): longint; var theevent : tInputEvent; Temp : ^pointer; begin if msg^.IClass <> IDCMP_RAWKEY then DeadKeyConvert := -2; with theevent do begin ie_NextEvent := nil; ie_Class := IECLASS_RAWKEY; ie_SubClass := 0; ie_Code := msg^.Code; ie_Qualifier := msg^.Qualifier; Temp := msg^.IAddress; ie_position.ie_addr := Temp^; end; DeadKeyConvert := RawKeyConvert(Addr(theevent),buffer,bufsize,keymap); end; var my_exit : pointer; ConsoleRequest : tIOStdReq; procedure CloseConsoleDevice; begin CloseDevice(Addr(ConsoleRequest)); end; begin ConsoleDevice := nil; OpenDevice(pchar('console.device'#0),-1,Addr(ConsoleRequest),0); ConsoleDevice := ConsoleRequest.io_Device; my_exit := ExitProc; ExitProc := @CloseConsoleDevice; end.