IBM used a hard coded Program Files directory

netdragon · Post by **netdragon** » September 5th, 2003, 2:45 am

Now that I moved my "Program Files" directory, I can see what idiots use hard-coded "Program Files" directories. IBM's modem driver did. I swear... Driver developers for hardware have to be the most incompetant programmers in the whole world. They could be replaced with 12 year old script kiddies who'd do a better job.

old momokatte · Post by **old momokatte** » September 5th, 2003, 2:52 am

Not as bad as HP's multimedia keyboard drivers, which insist on a folder in the root directory. I decided to just forget all those nifty buttons and delete the software. :evil:

Hmm....I wonder if they still send events, though...and if I could use them for custom Firebird bindings... :-k

UPDATE: sweet, they do! Maybe I'll bind one to "Open New Tab".

scragz · Post by **scragz** » September 5th, 2003, 4:11 am

How did you find what events they were sending? I have an MS Office keyboard with a bunch of buttons that don’t do anything w/out the drivers.

old momokatte · Post by **old momokatte** » September 5th, 2003, 4:29 am

scragz wrote:How did you find what events they were sending? I have an MS Office keyboard with a bunch of buttons that don’t do anything w/out the drivers.

I haven't checked for the event details yet, I just bound one to "Page Down" in my SuperScroll extension to see if it would work -- and it did.

Unfortunately, though, it turns out all of the extra buttons on my keyboard send the same keycode. I'll have to figure out what's unique about each one, since the keyboard software obviously needs something to tell them apart.

UPDATE: All of the multimedia buttons on my keyboard send an event.keyCode of 255, with no discernible difference in Firebird. It appears that the unique identifier is some nonstandard event attribute that isn't captured by the browser.

nilson · Post by **nilson** » September 5th, 2003, 3:02 pm

How do you change where Program Files is at?

GNU/Ben · Post by **GNU/Ben** » September 6th, 2003, 5:12 am

Cut 'n Paste?

nilson · Post by **nilson** » September 6th, 2003, 8:58 am

You can't do it like My Documents?

Lost User 8002 · Post by **Lost User 8002** » September 6th, 2003, 11:01 am

scragz wrote:How did you find what events they were sending? I have an MS Office keyboard with a bunch of buttons that don’t do anything w/out the drivers.

I have the MS Natural Pro Keyboard. All the little buttons work and I'm glad...

daihard · Post by **daihard** » September 6th, 2003, 11:22 pm

nilson wrote:You can't do it like My Documents?

I doubt you can. "My Documents" is a special folder shortcut that by default points to <code>C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\</code>. One of the first things I do when I install 2000/XP is change it so "My Documents" points to <code>D:\usr\dtoyama</code>. I can't stand those "long" file and directory names.

nilson · Post by **nilson** » September 6th, 2003, 11:42 pm

Yea, my Documents is D:\My Documents.