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  3. January 2004

Re: Arrow keys + scroll keys

GA,

>(IIRC, DSM can do character mode handling).

Not with a WS controller in data processing mode.  A certain amount of keystroke
level stuff is possible in word processing mode, but then you lose compatibility
with some other facets of the 5250 data stream and can't concurrently support
display formats as you know them.

So ignoring WP mode, you'll still be dealing with waiting for an AID key to be
pressed, and the cursor keys are not Attention IDentifier keys, as are things
like Enter, F1-F24, page up/down, etc.

Using DSM, you could have a program contantly performing a read immediate
examing the current cursor location and screen buffers and acting on any
differences found, but that is not exactly what I'd call efficient use of
resources...

Doug

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