CompuServe Thread

Eric This is a problem with PDraw itself … I reported it as a bug to Gold-Disk but have not yet had any response (I use a slightly non-standard keymap, and using PDraw with text is _very_ confusing!!) For some reason, the programmers have not taken account of the keyboard map in use, and they assume that you have a standard US keyboard. My guess is that they are getting characters from the keyboard in a slightly unorthodox manner and not doing a translation through the keymap. For some it's going to be a nuisance, for others it's a major problem … and it's contrary to Commodore's instructions in the Amiga style-guide. When you use requesters and so on, that's the Amiga grabbing characters from the keyboard and it knows how to do it properly 🙂 Until PDraw does things right, I don't think there is anything that you can do but live with it. By the way (and before one of the SYSOPs points it out), there is a policy here in AmigaUser which requires people to use their full names in the forum rather than a nickname. You can change your nickname to your full name by through the OPTION command at the main Forum prompt. I assume that you are from the Netherlands … with a nickname like Appeldoorn. I haven't been there for a long time, but I do remember its being a beautiful place. Mike (from the UK)

It is not a bug, in order for certain changes to be made in the latest version of PDraw (3.0) the development staff changed the way Pdraw handles keymaps. Essentially, PDraw reverts back to the keymap USA, hence the problems you are experiencing. They are hoping to modify this situation in the future. Philip Laitar Supervisor