Re: New - HP33C Simulator - Keyboard assignment Message #2 Posted by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) on 17 Apr 2005, 10:37 a.m., in response to message #1 by Mike T.
I understand this is not a priority item by now, but I would like to suggest an alternative for the key assignment issue: There could be a menu item called "assign", in a HP41 manner. The user, after entering the assign mode, would "press" a calculator key with the mouse, and immediately should press a PC keyboard key. This could be done for many keys before exiting the assign mode.
For instance, after entering assign mode, you can click on the SIN key and associate it to the "S" key on the PC by pressing this latter key. The mapping may admit many PC keys to be associated to the same calculator key. So "S", "s" and "$" will invoke "SIN", if the user defines it so. It is important to work with the keycode and not with the ASCII character, so the main keyboard keys and the numeric keypad keys for the same character may be treated differently.
Assignments would be saved in the INI file (text editable), and there should be a menu item for resetting the assignments to the default state ("factory default")
Just my $ 0.02,
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