Re: Re: Functional keys and squeak

On Wednesday 19 Nov 2008 5:18:23 am Andreas Raab wrote:
>  > So, my question is, is squeak images aware of existance of functional
> keys?
>
> Short answer: No. And I'll leave the long answer to someone else 
"Hardware is really just software crystallized early. It is there to make 
program schemes run as efficiently as possible. But far too often the 
hardware has been presented as a given and it is up to software designers to 
make it appear reasonable." - (1992) Alan Kay in
  http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_VI.html

The functional keys are a roundabout way of creating programmable buttons. The 
buttons are physically embedded in hardware and logic is split between 
various layers in the software stack. Squeak has a much easier way of 
creating soft buttons, so its virtual machine does not emulate f-keys.

Subbu