Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sjuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!sjuvax!jss From: jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Mac numeric keypad Message-ID: <833@sjuvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 15:12:22 EST Article-I.D.: sjuvax.833 Posted: Mon Feb 11 15:12:22 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 04:59:20 EST References: <2290@nsc.UUCP> <350@snow.UUCP> Distribution: net.micro.mac Organization: Saint Josephs Univ. Phila., Pa. Lines: 21 [Aren't you hungry...?] DO NOT solder in a keypad in parallel with your normal Mac keypad. Aside from being foolish if you aren't proficient with the appropriate tools, it won't work. The VT100 does not send the same sequences from the keypad as it does from the keyboard. In keypad mode, the keypad keys send escape sequences, whereas the normal keys send the normal things. This is a true remapping done by the terminal, and requires that the keypad and the keyboard *not* be wired together. Also, Mac applications using the keypad expect to get a different sequence of codes so that they can tell whether or not the entry came from the keyboard. Look at Inside Mac at the bitmap which tells you whether the option key was down, whether the command key was down, whether the shift key was down, whether the caps lock key was down, and WHETHER OR NOT THE INPUT CAME FROM THE KEYPAD. I do not mean to flame at the original poster, but it is crucial that his honest mistake be corrected before people demolish their macs. Jon Shapiro Haverford College