[Freedos-devel] KEYB and keyboard layouts.

[Bernd B. <bb...@ho...>]

Aitor,

I really could use the keyboard layouts and the KEYB executable by now,
for testing purposes. looks like KEYB cannot look into subdirectories,
and thus the need for the PUSHD/POPD you see below:
I'm not sure what KEYB does exactly for locating the layout file:

1)look in current directory? ( %_CWD% )
2)look in directory where KEYB is located?
3)look in subdirectory KEY (if it exists) of any of the above mentioned directories?
   this because it's fast: step 4 is slow, and 5 also.
4)look in path? (%PATH%)
5)look in subdirectory KEY (if it exists) of any directory mentioned in the PATH?

say path=c:\fdos
say current directory is C:\
say C:\FDOS\BIN\KEY\BR274.KL and C:\FDOS\BIN\KEY\BR.KL exist
say KEYB is called from autoexec.bat in the following way:
C:\FDOS\BIN\KEYB br,,br274.kl /id:274

in above situation,
1) will fail
2) will fail
3) will fail
4) will fail
5) would succeed, as it finds the requested file in the subdirectory KEY of one of
    the directories mentioned in the PATH variable.

can you help me out on this? I really do not wish to do the PUSHD/KEYB/POPD in autoexec.bat!

Bernd


:DoNLS
if exist %fdosroot%\NLS\localize.%2 set lang=%2
set uniqueID=%3
rem Latin America has no codepage number; Japan has no CPI file
if "%4"=="" goto loadkeyb
if "%5"=="" goto loadkeyb
if not exist %fdosroot%\bin\%5.CPI goto loadkeyb
rem DEVLOAD DISPLAY.SYS CON=(%5,,1)
%fdosroot%\bin\DISPLAY CON=(%5,,1)
%fdosroot%\bin\MODE CON CP PREP=((%4) %fdosroot%\bin\%5.CPI)
%fdosroot%\bin\MODE CON CP SEL=%4
pause
goto loadkeyb

:loadkeyb
set keybfile=NoKeyboardLayout
for %%x in ( %fdosroot%\bin\key\*.kl ) do if "%fdosroot%\bin\key\%6.kl"=="%%x" set keybfile=%%x
for %%x in ( %fdosroot%\bin\key\*.KL ) do if "%fdosroot%\bin\key\%6.KL"=="%%x" set keybfile=%%x
set keybline=
if "%6"=="" goto end
shift
shift
shift
shift
shift
set keybline=%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
pushd %fdosroot%\bin\key
for %%x in ( /U %keybline% ) do %fdosroot%\bin\keyb %%x
popd
pause
goto end