F keys cross-platform?

[Bill Vlahos]

Jim,

Is there a list of common keyboard assignments like this?

Bill Vlahos

On Sep 19, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Jim Bufalini wrote:

> Richmond Mathewson:
>
>> As rawKeyDown doesn't pick up
>> keydowns such as SHIFT on Macintosh
>> I am thinking of using F keys (specifically F1 and F2)
>> to state-change in the Beta 2 version of my
>> Sanskrit typewriter and wonder if using these
>> 2 keys will "make things go all wobbly" on
>> Windows?
>
>
> F1 is universally used by all programs on PC as the Help key, so I  
> wouldn't
> use it for any other purpose than to launch your help, as a typical  
> Windows
> user would expect this. Other raw function keys have different  
> meanings
> depending on keyboard or program. However, to the best of my  
> knowledge,
> keystrokes are only sent to the top window. So if your application  
> is the
> top window, you can interpret the key any way you want. If your app  
> is not
> on top, it won't receive the keystroke.
>
> Aloha from Hawaii,
>
> Jim Bufalini
>
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