I'm running Basilisk II on fullscreen. The modifier keys of windows and the equivalent with Mac OS are:
Control = Control
Windows key = Option
Alt = Command
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Alt Gr = Control + Command
The problem is when I press the "Option" key on Basilisk II, automatically Windows switches to the explorer to show me the start menu.
I would to convert the option key to Alt Gr and leave unusable in Basilisk II the Windows key.
Thanks.
How do I to modify a key?
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Re: How do I to modify a key?
My solution was to add the following line in the Windows section in the BasiliskII_keycodes file, to make the APPLICATION key the option key.Macinspanish wrote:I'm running Basilisk II on fullscreen. The modifier keys of windows and the equivalent with Mac OS are:
Control = Control
Windows key = Option
Alt = Command
------------
Alt Gr = Control + Command
The problem is when I press the "Option" key on Basilisk II, automatically Windows switches to the explorer to show me the start menu.
I would to convert the option key to Alt Gr and leave unusable in Basilisk II the Windows key.
Thanks.
93 58 ## CONTEXT (-> Option)
such that it looks as:
220 58 # Logo Right (-> Option)
93 58 ## CONTEXT (-> Option)
221 50 # Menu (-> International)
I tried to disable the Windows logo key in the keycodes file in all ways I could think, without any success. (I changed all lines that have 58, no success)
I did not try to convert ALT GR to anything, but it seems to behave as the two keys ALT and CTRL, and not as a separate distinguishable key.
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Re: How do I to modify a key?
Does someone know the scan code (on the Macintosh side) for the Power key?
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Re: How do I to modify a key?
I've been hunting this for some time, and finally found it:
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11wi-cs140/ ... des-5.html
http://jaoswald.wordpress.com/symbolics ... r-mapping/ -- this may help with more complex keymappings too (I was having issues running Basilisk II for Windows inside a Wineskin wrapper and getting the option key on my Mac keyboard mapping to the Option key in OS 9).
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Argh... or I might have just read http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-10.html as linked from http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6662
All useful reading though.
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11wi-cs140/ ... des-5.html
This link might be more useful though:5.33 Keyboards with many keys
The current mechanism is unable to handle keyboards with more than 127 keys. But such keyboards seem to exist. Indeed, I now have a Safeway SW23 that has 132 keys.
Mark Hatle <fray@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
On some ADB keyboards there are actually 128 distinct keys. They use scancodes 0-127.
ADB is Apple Desktop Bus. The way that ADB works is similar to SCSI but on a much slower level. Specifically there is a communications chip in the computer, ADB controller, and the same chip in the keyboard. The keyboard sends the scancode to its internal ADB controller, the internal ADB controller then does any key mapping needed (not used under linux from my understanding) and passes the data to the computer.
The ADB controller is capable of sending 256 distinct keys, but to my knowledge only 128 are sent. The key 0 is the 'a' and key 127 is the "power button".
Also some of the Apple ADB keyboards have special "sound" and "function" keys. These keys (used in MacOS for volume up and down, screen contrast changing, etc) also show up on the ADB scancodes.
ADB is used for both m68k and PPC Linux. The m68k Macintosh port, and the PPC - Power Macintosh and CHRP ports.
and later:
Basically the scancode sequences for ADB are 16 bit. so there can actually be 65536 scancodes, currently though only 128 are defined.
http://jaoswald.wordpress.com/symbolics ... r-mapping/ -- this may help with more complex keymappings too (I was having issues running Basilisk II for Windows inside a Wineskin wrapper and getting the option key on my Mac keyboard mapping to the Option key in OS 9).
[edit]
Argh... or I might have just read http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-10.html as linked from http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6662
All useful reading though.