What's the Alt Gr key for?

[OM]

Can someone tell me if the Alt Gr key has ANY function at all?
Is it possible to write programs to use it?


OM

 

[VManes]

See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052590631033.aspx

If you can write code to catch the key codes, you can do anything you want
with it.

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Can someone tell me if the Alt Gr key has ANY function at all?
Is it possible to write programs to use it?


OM

 

[Leif Nordmand Andersen]

Hi,

Us form countries with other letters than yours ... we use it to
access the letters, which is not available on the normal keyboard.

So just because the Americans can't find any use, doesn't mean the
rest of the world can't

From Denmark with love.

 

[Stan Brown]

See http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP052590631033.aspx

"ALT GR is equivalent to the CTRL+ALT key combination"

Not on my computer -- AltGr-4 seems to be some sort of Tab keyt
combination. It's definitely not the same as Ctrl-Alt-4, which is a
shortcut to a particular program.

 

[Rik Bean]

in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:-
See http://tinyurl.com/3qa9f-

"ALT GR is equivalent to the CTRL+ALT key combination"

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/

AAMOI, do you know what the GR represents. I've often wondered over the
years...

 

[Mikey]

AAMOI, do you know what the GR represents. I've often wondered over the
years...

According to this web page, it stands for GRaphic:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoc.../com.ibm.db2.udb.common.doc/common/nlchar.htm

 

[Rik Bean]

Rik Bean wrote:
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Stan Brown Wrote:-
in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:-
See http://tinyurl.com/3qa9f-

"ALT GR is equivalent to the CTRL+ALT key combination"

Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/-

AAMOI, do you know what the GR represents. I've often wondered over
the
years...

--
Rik Bean-

According to this web page, it stands for GRaphic:
http://tinyurl.com/6ty3o

Thanks, Mikey. I'd heard that before, but it never seems to do anything
graphical - perhaps it's a hangover from DOS when extended characters
would have had to be a graphic?