Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #158: Distinguish the two 'Enter' keys on Windows

[Jacob L. <jy...@mo...>]

To pile on, as I pointed out via the Tcl Chat to the authors, this TIP is
not only about the Enter key, its about *all* the keys that appear on the
keypad and which have equivalent non-keypad keys. All the numeric keys,
plus, minus, mult, divide, dot (.), etc.

And I just looked at my daughter's keyboard on her windows PC, and there's
a few marks on there that I cannot figure out (don't know if they're
related to this TIP but probably): how would one bind portably to the
'HOME', 'END', 'PGUP', 'PGDOWN', 'INSERT', 'DEL', and 'NUMLOCK' keys?
Would they now also require Mod4 prefixes?

--JYL

> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Kevin Kenny wrote:
>> Ben...@ep... said:
>> >> (and does not bind _<Mod4-Enter>_)
>>
>> > You want <Mod4-Return> here, I think.
>
> One example of why I far prefer the 'alternative' which this TIP
> rejects. You want to bind Enter, but instead have to bind Mod4-Return.
> Even the TIP authors were confused and wrote the wrong code!
>
> Neither the TIP nor the patch cited makes clear what changes you expect
> to make to Tk's man pages to explain the peculiar handling of these
> keys. Perhaps it would be helpful to explain the differences between the
> 'KP_Enter' alternative (man page becomes simpler if anything) and what
> you propose.
>
> For the record, I would suggest the alternative tip "KP_Enter is only
> currently recognised on Unix.  This is a bug for a cross-platform
> toolkit. This TIP proposes to add support for KP_Enter to Windows.  ...
> Existing Tcl scripts written for Unix will now work correctly on
> Windows.  Existing scripts on Windows which assumed Return and KP_Enter
> would actually both generate Return events will now need to be fixed."
>
> cheers,
>
> Vince.
>
>
>
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