[WT-support] Redefining the * key

[Clive Whelan]

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Some of you might remember that I have a keyboard with no numeric 
keypad. I therefore decided to temporarily connect a conventional USB 
kbd in order to redefine the numpad * key to the Pause key with which I 
am familiar in Brand X logger. However for some reason the standard 
routine in WT will not accept the Pause key, although paradoxically it 
will accept Ctrl-Pause ! I can live with that but I'd like to drop the 
Ctrl of course. In wt.ini, the aforementioned produces the line KEY0=259 
4 42 0.

Now I can see that 42 is the decimal code for the * key, and if I use 
the main kbd * , I then get .......  42 1, so obviously the second 
figure is the shift character. Puzzlingly 259 is greater even than the 
extended ASCII range and no other qualifier than 4 works when I modify 
the line in wt.ini. A lot of googling fails to produce an answer :-(

So I have two questions

1. Does anyone know the correct sequence for the ( stand-alone ) Pause key

and/or

2. Perhaps someone else's keyboard will accept the Pause character in 
Tools| Redefine keyboard..., and could let me know the sequence produced 
in wt.ini?


Advice appreciated.

73


Clive
GW3NJW