Re: Patch submission for AltGr handling

[Jason Tiller <jtiller at sjm dot com>]

Hi, Chris, :)

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 04:02:55PM -0800, Jason Tiller wrote:
> >On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> >> Could you please resubmit a patch which doesn't introduce another
> >> CYGWIN option but instead uses automatic recognition of the current
> >> keyboard setting?

> >Can do. :) Glad to know people thought it useful enough to go
> >forward!

> >A little investigation showed that GetKeyboardLayout is exported in
> >libuser32.a.  The problem, then, is that the new_cygwin1.dll link
> >doesn't explicitly reference libuser32.a.  (As far as I can tell,
> >it only refernces libkernel32.a from the core Windows files.)

> Take a look at autoload.cc.  You need to add the "declaration" for
> this function there.

Thanks for the tip.  I do see how that works.  One thing I don't
understand, though - why do you go through the code you do to load
procedure addresses instead of LoadProcAddress()'ing them?

Looking forward to enlightenment,

---Jason Tiller
jdtiller@sjm.com
Sonos


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