Re: Patch submission for AltGr handling

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:28:18AM +0100, Gunnar Degnbol wrote:
>At 19:44 05-03-2001 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>Hi Jason,
>>
>>we just talked on cygwin-developers about your patch.
>>
>>Could you please resubmit a patch which doesn't introduce
>>another CYGWIN option but instead uses automatic recognition
>>of the current keyboard setting? For example the expression
>>
>>if (PRIMARYLANGID (LOWORD (GetKeyboardLayout (0)) == LANG_ENGLISH)
>>
>>should work.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Corinna
>This checks if any characters are produced using the altgr key (altgr is 
>converted to ctrl+alt):
>
>altgr = FALSE;
>for (i = 32; i < 256; i++) {
>     vk = VkKeyScan((char)i);
>     if (vk != -1 && (vk & 0x600) == 0x600) { /* ctrl+alt */
>         altgr = TRUE;
>         break;
>     }
>}

I'm not sure how this is useful since it bypasses Cygwin entirely.

cgf

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