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| Posted: 09:45am 13 Dec 2023 |
Hey folks,
If it works, it works, but IMO we should probably be reading directly connected keyboard with ON PS2, possibly (if such a thing works) in parallel with INKEY$ for a potentially attached "console keyboard".
There is code to handle ON PS2 and map from scan codes to something more useful here: https://github.com/thwill1000/mmbasic-sptools/blob/master/src/splib/ctrl.inc and you can see it in use in https://github.com/thwill1000/mmbasic-lazer-cycle.
Notes:
1. In theory it can even handle that Shift-Tab combination for the map ... or at least it could if I'd included the Shift scan-code mappings in my code.
2. Unlike INKEY$ I don't think ON PS2 knows anything about keyboard internationalisation, the scan codes instead refer to physical key locations irrespective of what is printed on them ... I may be wrong.
Best wishes,
Tom
Edited 2023-12-13 19:46 by thwill