[Discussion] VNC" Will not accept/respond to just the 'Ctrl' key

[David Azarewicz]

Yes, of course it could be setup that way.  The local client would read the scan 
codefor the CTRL key press, and send a special, agreed upon, code to the other 
end. It is not likely that VNC does that since that is a non-portable, PC specific 
thing, although I don't know for sure.

Perhaps an alternate would be to setup the SPF/PC application to accept a 
different character to simulate the 3270 <enter> key.  (A character that VNC can 
send.)

David

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:57:05 -0400 (EDT), Carl Gehr wrote:

>FWIW [probably not much, from your additional comments], I just
>tried accessing a remote VNC using the browser interface.  Same
>exact results.
>
>It is interesting, though, that the application, 'native' on a
>local desktop, works just fine this way.  And, so does PComm
>for TN3270 access to a real mainframe.  So, it obviously can be
>set up to send some character combination that an application
>can interpret.
>
>Carl
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-= In Reply to Your ORIGINAL MESSAGE =-=-=-=-=-=-=
>From: "David Azarewicz" <david at 88watts.net>
>To:   "discussion at lists.possi.org" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
>cc:   
>Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:32:45 -0700 (PDT)
>Subject: Re: [Discussion] VNC" Will not accept/respond to just the
>'Ctrl' key
>
>Replying to my own mesage...  I don't think that works.  Pressing the
>Ctrl key is not actually a character so there is nothing to send.  The
>"Ctrl Key Down" function simply gets ready to send a contrl character
>and does not send a "key pressed" message.  I have been using VNC for
>a long time and I don't know how to do what you are asking.
>
>Sorry,
>David
>

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