11 Jun
2005
11 Jun
'05
4:31 p.m.
Hello fellow ClassicCmp'ers,
I have just completed another kilometre-post on my road of migration
from a VT320 to a Classic X11 environment. I wrote and
released a
library that can be used by X11 applications to turn the X11 keyboard
into an IFCTF keyboard, i.e., an extended ASCII input generator rather
than a random bank of buttons. It is called the X11 IFCTF keyboard
library and can be found on my FTP site:
ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/unix/X11/libXIFCTFkbd-1.0.tar.Z
It takes the next step beyond keycode-to-keysym translation and turns
the keyboard input into extended ASCII. For an explanation of what I
mean by this you'll need to download the library and read the
documentation.
This library will be used by my HECterm/X11 terminal application. One
thing that I absolutely have to have in order to migrate from the VT320
I'm typing this on to an X11 environment, even a Classic one (X11R4
client environment under 4.3BSD-Quasijarus talking to a standalone X11
display on Ethernet), is a text terminal application that can match the
quality of a real DEC VT terminal. Since this is so critical to me, I
have decided not to rely on anyone else's software and to write my own
terminal application from scratch. I'm already well into it and it's
coming along nicely. When it's ready, I'll of course release it as
public domain software as well and announce it here.
MS