Re: send function keys to a legacy DOS program

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Date	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:59:45 +0300
From	Alexander Gattin <xrgtn@yandex.ru>
To	Justin Ezequiel <justin.mailinglists@gmail.com>
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Hello,

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:59:46PM -0700, Justin
Ezequiel wrote:
> On Mar 20, 7:30 am, Alexander Gattin
> <xr...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> > You need to place 2 bytes into the circular buffer
> > to simulate key press. Lower byte is ASCII code,
> > higher byte is scan code (they are the same for
> > functional keys, whe using default keycode set#1):
> >
> > F5: 0x3F 0x3F
> > F2: 0x3C 0x3C
> > F7: 0x41 0x41

I'm not sure regarding the ASCII part. I think it
might need to be set to 0x00 for all functional
keys instead of 0x3F/0x3C/0x41, but probably no
application actually cares.

Another thing is that you may need to send key
release after key press in order for the
application to trigger the F5/F2/F7 event. I'm not
sure what the scan codes for F5/F2/F7 releases
are, but think that they may be:

F5: 0xBF
F2: 0xBC
F7: 0xC1

-- 
With best regards,
xrgtn

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Re: send function keys to a legacy DOS program Alexander Gattin <xrgtn@yandex.ru> - 2011-03-29 16:59 +0300
  Re: send function keys to a legacy DOS program Mel <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2011-03-29 15:09 +0000

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