KEYB_INJ.PRG - A key press injection utility for TOS 1.x
(C) 2019 Christian Zietz <czietz@gmx.net>
Sometimes an application or driver needs to input key press and release
events as if they were coming from the Atari keyboard itself. TOS
versions 2 and above as well as EmuTOS provide an API for this task;
however, Atari TOS 1.x does not.
KEYB_INJ.PRG is a utility to provide such applications the address within
TOS 1.x which handles keyboard events.
- GUIDE FOR USERS -
Place KEYB_INJ.PRG in your AUTO folder. Make sure to sort the folder in
such a way that KEYB_INJ.PRG is run before any drivers that need it.
Note: If no cookie jar exists, KEYB_INJ.PRG creates its own, which can
also be used by other programs. Therefore, if your AUTO folder contains a
program solely to create a cookie jar, you can remove it when using
KEYB_INJ.PRG.
- GUIDE FOR DEVELOPERS -
KEYB_INJ.PRG sets the 'KINJ' cookie to the address of a routine within
TOS that can be called similarly as the 'kbdvec' vector available via the
Kbdvbase() XBIOS call since TOS 2, with the additional requirement that the
A5 register is zeroed.
In pseudo code:
At the start of a program:
if TOS version >= 2 or EmuTOS detected:
; "negative 1" entry from array returned by Kbdvbase()
vector = Kbdvbase()[-1]
else if 'KINJ' cookie detected:
vector = value of 'KINJ' cookie
else:
Fail
To inject a key press or release event:
Save all registers
Register A0 = Iorec(1)
Register D0 = Scancode (or scancode+0x80 for release)
Register A5 = 0
Call vector with JSR
Restore all registers
- LICENSE -
Copyright (c) 2019 Christian Zietz <czietz@gmx.net>
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