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pad-star and pad-divide keys have no pad prefix

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Graeme:
The pad star * and pad divide / keys have an event name of just * or /.  Is that intentional or is it my keyboard?

I see slick sources looking for pad-star and pad-slash in a few places.
 

jporkkahtc:
Works for me on Windows.
All the keys there are Pad<something>, unless numlock is on.
When numlock is on, 0-9 and . change.

Graeme:
The what-is command gives me PadStar but this code gives me * - on Windows with a Logitech K350 keyboard


--- Code: ---_command void testkeys() name_info(',')
{
   message("Press a key, ESC to exit");
   while ( 1 ) {
      _str key = get_event('N');   // refresh screen and get a key
      _str keyt = event2name(key);
      message("keyt " keyt);
      if ( keyt == "ESC" ) {
         return;
      }
   }
}


--- End code ---

Graeme:
If I try with a new empty config, the plus, minus and enter keys also fail to show the Pad prefix with the testkeys command.

jporkkahtc:
testkeys gives mostly the same result as key binding options dialog.
Except, it returns enter instead of pad-enter, 0, 1, 3, 9 and . instead of pad-key
Curiously, it returns ENTER, but with shift it is shift-pad-enter.

Your keyboard surely could be the problem.
Have you tried windows On-Screen Keyboard? It has an option to display a numpad as well.

For me, the keyboard and OSK seem to behave the same.
event2name() I guess isn't as good as whatever is done in key bindings.

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