Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Hill Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:43:35 +0000 (GMT) Organization: timil.com Lines: 45 Message-ID: <527481cb8btim@invalid.org.uk> References: <77e2a26c52.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <526cac3a90Spambin@argonet.co.uk> <526cb14943news@highpath.net> <5e70bc6c52.michaelbell@michael.beaverbell.co.uk> <526cbf084dSpambin@argonet.co.uk> <526cf50033Spambin@argonet.co.uk> <526d54a62dsee.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526d611273see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526d61f0c5UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> <526d7119d3see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> <526eba5b18tim@invalid.org.uk> <6f17486f52.jim@nails.abbeypress.net> <526f5a74f5tim@invalid.org.uk> <527367e51ftim@invalid.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: GqAcIUbqh27oTTI3Dt5hJw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04c (RISC-OS/5.16) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:4526 In article , Martin Wuerthner wrote: > In message <527367e51ftim@invalid.org.uk> Tim Hill > wrote: [Snip] > > AIUI programs written with C have an unfriendly attitude towards > > user-defined function keys which are ignored unless the programmer > > pays attention to them. > No, that does not make any sense. The choice of programming language > has absolutely no bearing on program behaviour. Sorry, Martin it seems I may have been misinformed about the default situation with writable icons. I was told by an Acorn C programmer that C Programs have to specifically cater for every key pressed and 'enable' function keys, so to speak, whereas a BASIC program written for the wimp would automatically use function key definitions, unless they were specifically re-jigged to do something else. I can understand this is wrong and the use of the keys is language independent: that makes far more sense. > Function keys work in writable icons unless the application asks to > process all key presses and fails to return unprocessed ones to the > Wimp. Ah, so those programs which don't return unused presses are therefore simply incomplete! > Outside writable icons (e.g., in a word processor window) function > keys are not expected to work. Applications that insist on supporting > them may of course do so, but that would be unusual. Going back a few years, those programmable f-keys were damned useful for inserting macros. Now we mouse-click buttons instead. :-) -- Tim Hill of timil.com . . . * supports TFT & shares in cheaper ethical telecoms http://tjrh.eu/phone * has a genuine & spam-proof address for Usenet http://www.invalid.org.uk/ * accepts incoming email: substitute postmaster@ for tim@ ... "He that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, but makes me poor indeed" Othello, Act iii, Sc.3