| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
I have a customer who makes system for emergency calls center. It
is based on VAXes with a Tektronix 4209 for every operator.
To make life easier for the operator they have designed and built
their own keyboard with lots of functionkeys.
Now we are looking for replacing those Tektronix screens with
workstations.
How can we connect their keyboard as a replace for the LK201.
When they fill in all their forms it is done with an application
that is heavily dependent on the features in the terminaldriver.
It's extended reads, escape sequence reqognition, field validation
etc. You could have it as a test suite for different versions of
the TT-driver.
In the file DECW$DEVICE.COM the logical DECW$KEYBOARD is set
up. If I redirect this to let say TTA2: on my VS2000 will it
mean that I can plug in the extra keyboard and make it look like
the input came from my normal LK201 keyboard ? Is still the
keymapping files used ?
If this is the case will this functionality remain in the future ?
I tried to redirect it and plugged in a VT220 but then
DECwindows never comes up at all so obviously it didn't work
that easy, maybe something else is needed too.
Regards,
Bo
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| 330.1 | VWSENG::KLEINSORGE | Toys 'R' Us | Tue Mar 07 1989 09:46 | 11 | |
From my brief tip-toe thru the drivers -- no. The current DECwindows
drivers and servers expect a LK201 on the other end. The only way
that you might be able to do it is if you wrote a port driver for
the serial line and massaged the data (both input and command output)
to make your device look like a LK201.
_Fred (who also would like to feed something other than LK201 matrix
codes to the drivers).
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| 330.2 | max # of keys ? | GOTA1::BJERKEHOLT | Bo Bjerkeholt, SWAS, @GOO | Wed Mar 08 1989 01:47 | 7 |
If my customer adapt their keyboard to the LK201 matrix, would it
be possible to have more keys specified? What is the limit on the
number of keys (FF maybe?) LK201 keymap files start at 56.
Still don't realize what this logical DECW$KEYBOARD is good for.
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