[Openmcl-devel] Key Codes in OpenMCL

[Brent Fulgham]

On Jan 14, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Gary Byers wrote:

> Cocoa uses a private-use range of the Unicode code space (#\uf700-# 
> \uf8ff)
> to name characters produced by function keys.  Giving the character  
> whose
> code is #xf700 (= #$NSUpArrowFunctionKey) a name like  
> "NSUpArrowFunctionKey"
> might make a little bit of sense, since there's at least some context
> in which #xf700 is used as a character code (e.g., in the NSString
> returned by -[NSEvent characters].

Yes; this is the context I'm looking at presently.


> And yes: there should be some user-visible way of naming characters.
> (What's there now isn't thread-safe - just intended to run in the
> initial thread during the cold load - and isn't opaque enough.)
> I don't think that such a mechanism should be used to confuse Carbon
> event codes with CHAR-CODEs.

So for now, it sounds like I should just add some openmcl reader  
macro guards and hard-code the character code values until something  
changes in the implementation.  Right?

Thanks,

-Brent