31 Oct
2012
31 Oct
'12
2:47 a.m.
On 2012-Oct-30 22:30 , Programmingkid wrote:
What word in Open Firmware can be used to detect the command key being pushed? Something that isn't get-key-map. I have tried key, but it didn't work.
Unless the console driver has changed considerably, the command key isn't exposed to the end-user. The keyboard driver parses keystrokes (things like shift-keystroke causing a different value than simple keystroke) and passes ascii codes up to the key? method.
In the Sun version, this is handled in obp/pkg/keyboard/* - look for keycodes.fth, keytable.fth and keymap.fth, they likely have the code involved. But the short answer is that "key?" returns an ascii value, not a keystroke.