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Yes, the modifications are to have a "dummy" input port so that you can click on a layout button.

Theoretically, you could make as many dummy ports and fields as you would like.

The layout element is connected to the port with an inputtag and inputmask.

It's primitive, but there's all kinds of interesting things you could do like loading/switching floppies, etc.

Video of it in action (it's super exciting, I know)



The dummy ports aren't connected to the keyboard, but you can activate them with the keyboard using the inputmacro plugin:

I never knew about the function keys on the Franklin Ace 500/2x00. That's really cool. I wish that I'd had one of those back in the day just for that feature.

Perusing the code, I made a few modifications and the function keys seem to work, (at least on initial testing, not extensively tested though).

I think the problem is that it hits the strobe when you press the key AND when you release the key and there's no key down so it returns 0 and basically types the @ symbol.



So Franklin basic has a special command called FKEY
and you can redefine the function keys with FKEY [num],[string]

for example:

FKEY 1,"DUDE"
FKEY 2,"LIST"+CHR$(13)


Seems to work better on the Ace 2200 diagnostic disk keyboard test: (disk named Franklin Ace 2200 V1.0.dsk)

Thanks, those two changes seem to make it work great!