1. Re: Exclamation Point in DirectInput Key List
Hi Chris,
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> ïÔ: bensler at mail.com
> ëÏÍÕ: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> ôÅÍÁ: RE: Exclamation Point in DirectInput Key List
> äÁÔÁ: Friday, February 22, 2002 22:17
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>
> Mostly guessing, I've never used code pages, but instead of writing
> something like this..
> char = DIK_KEY+'A'
>
> You would do something like this..
> code_page = codepages[COUNTRY_CODE]
> char = code_page[DIK_KEY]
>
> Or are code pages ascii based?
>
> Igor, or others, would know better than I.
On my machines '!' is always '!', strongly
(shift + 1 key), on plain DOS, in DOS window,
on Windows, in Windows text consol, both
in Russian keyboard layout on DOS and Windows
(are different), and in standard Latin
keyboard layout.
There are 2 thing you must adjust on DOS and
on Windows - select the code page for the output
and select keyboard layout for the input.
For example, my adjustments for 866 code page
on DOS:
config.sys
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device=D:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
Country=007,866,D:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys
autoexec.bat
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mode con codepage prepare=((866) D:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega3.cpi)
mode con codepage select=866
keyb ru,,D:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keybrd3.sys
After these commands above, I have
Russian on the screen and from the keyboard
for Dos.
But these commands have no effect for Windows.
For Windows, there is another story.
I must open the control panel, run Language & Standards
and select the Russian + English languages for the screen,
then run Keyboard and select the Russian + English
keyboard layouts.
These layouts and on-screen-encodings are different
on DOS and Windows but '!' sign is same and stable.
*Almost* all 0..127 codes (i.e. ascii) are *almost*
stable on my machine ...
except '.' , ',' , '/' , '?' , ''' , '"' , ':' , ';"
and so on ...
but '!' is *absolutelly* stable ...
I can not reproduce this your problem here.
I'm sorry.
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
