Suggestion: VK_APPS key (i.e. popup menu key)

[Gero Zahn]

Ummm ... You got me: I merely tried to mimic the existing code, I didn't 
compile or test it myself. I tried to achieve the
> 5d00 6e00 0100 0000
hex sequence, which I thought would result from that. Will it or won't it?

Gero

Am 27.03.18 um 22:52 schrieb Ken Thomases:
> You've also used 0x6e as the Win32 scan code.  That seems kind of coincidental.  Where'd it come from?
> 
> -Ken
> 
>> On Mar 27, 2018, at 3:47 AM, Gero Zahn <geroz at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Austin,
>>
>> Am 27.03.18 um 07:24 schrieb Austin English:
>>> Hi Gero,
>>> Where did you get that value from? I don't see it in
>>> https://github.com/phracker/MacOSX-SDKs/ and can't find it anywhere in
>>> google.
>>
>> Probably because a genuine Mac keyboard does not have that key. ;-) But it still has a key code when connecting a PC keyboard to a Mac. I got the 0x6e out of Many Tricks Key Codes:
>>> https://manytricks.com/keycodes/
>>
>> When I press and release the VK_APPS key on my Cherry keyboard connected to my MacBook Pro, this is what happens:
>>
>>> Key Down
>>> 	Characters:	
>>> 	Unicode:		16 / 0x10
>>> 	Keys:		
>>> 	Key Code:	110 / 0x6e
>>> 	Modifiers:	256 / 0x100 ⓘ
>>> Key Up
>>> 	Characters:	
>>> 	Unicode:		16 / 0x10
>>> 	Keys:		
>>> 	Key Code:	110 / 0x6e
>>> 	Modifiers:	256 / 0x100 ⓘ
>>
>> As I mentioned earlier: I've been hand-patching winemac.drv.so manually for quite a while now after each new release. For wine-3.0 (through HomeBrew), it's as follows:
>>
>>> $ xxd winemac.drv-fresh.so > winemac.drv-fresh.so.hex
>>> $ xxd winemac.drv-patched.so > winemac.drv-patched.so.hex
>>> $ diff winemac.drv-fresh.so.hex winemac.drv-patched.so.hex 25998c25998
>>> < 000658d0: 7900 4400 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  y.D.............
>>> ---
>>>> 000658d0: 7900 4400 0100 0000 5d00 6e00 0100 0000  y.D.....].n.....
>>> $
>>
>> As you can see, there's again the 0x6e / 0x100 in it, together with the "target key" 0x5d, as defined in
>>> ./include/winuser.rh
>> like this:
>>> #define VK_APPS                0x5D
>>
>> If I remember correctly, I got all those crazy winemac.drv.so patching ideas from this blog post:
>>> https://palant.de/2014/02/14/crazy-hacks-changing-wine-key-mappings-on-mac-os-x
>>
>> It became necessary after I had switch from X11 wine to Mac-native wine, and thus patching ~/.Xmodmap didn't have any effect anymore.
>>
>> Thanks for listening,
>>
>> Gero
>>
>>
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