Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard?

From	Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard?
Date	2012-03-22 15:43 +0000
Organization	timil.com
Message-ID	<527481cb8btim@invalid.org.uk> (permalink)
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In article <a6e0067452.martin@bach.planiverse.com>, Martin Wuerthner
<spamtrap@mw-software.com> wrote:
> In message <527367e51ftim@invalid.org.uk> Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk>
>           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. :-)

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  Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 14:02 +0000
    Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2012-03-07 15:43 +0100
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        Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-08 12:53 +0100
          Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 17:17 +0000
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              Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 19:32 +0000
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                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-08 22:27 +0000
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                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-12 15:32 +0000
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 20:28 +0100
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2012-03-20 12:24 +0000
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                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> - 2012-03-22 17:34 +0000
                Re: Spelling reform on the keyboard? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-21 20:18 +0100
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