Hi, On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 17:26, Bret Johnson <bretj...@juno.com> wrote:
> For older versions of FD-KEYB and KEYB programs from other places > (including MKEYB), I was thinking of maybe doing something with an > Environment variable, similar to what FreeDOS has implemented with the > COUNTRY environment variable. I was thinking of an environment variable > either called KEYBID or KEYBLAYOUT. The contents of the variable would be > the two-letter keyboard code followed optionally by the ID. Some examples: > > KEYBLAYOUT=US > =US103 (same as US) > =GR > =GR129 (same as GR) > =GR453 > > With that, there is a way for a program to figure out what the current > keyboard layout is if it needs to know for some reason (like some of mine > do). This variable could be set in the FreeDOS installation program or by > the user if the user wants to "automate" things sufficiently. I think > adding the special FD-KEYB interface would still be valuable though, since > it provides MUCH more information than just the ID. The fact that it will > rarely get used is not a valid reason to not implement it. > Well, everytime I see something like this you need (some information that is retrieved within a single interrupt call), I always have the wild idea: someone add an internal command to FreeCOM C:\>KBLAYOUT GR129 C:\> unless someone builds up a clever DEBUG macro :) You wouldn't have it on a variable though. But I highly useful feature of FreeCOM would be precisely to store the last line of an execution into a variable (unluckily we don't have `this` in DOS): SET /L LAYOUT=KBLAYOUT Anyway, ideas are cheap, how I wish I could put my hands on this myself :) Aitor
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