How to detect #PB_Key_Minus and #PB_Key_PadComma ?

[Psychophanta]

I am unable to detect '#PB_Key_Minus' neither '#PB_Key_PadComma' keys with the keyboard native library.
Is it an issue from my keyboard or is it a general thing?

[STARGÅTE]

The question to me is, what are these keys?

The keys on the pad are named: #PB_Key_Subtract and #PB_Key_Decimal

[Psychophanta]

The question to me is, what are these keys?

Don't you have access to the documentation manual?

[STARGÅTE]

The question to me is, what are these keys?

Don't you have access to the documentation manual?

I have, but what am I supposed to read there?
There is no information about the constants' meaning!

On German keyboard, #PB_Key_Minus is mapped to "ß"-key and but #PB_Key_PadComma?

[BarryG]

what are these keys?

They look like something to do with the numeric keypad. They're listed here -> https://www.purebasic.com/documentation ... ushed.html

[Axolotl]

I think the keys you are looking for are

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Debug #PB_Shortcut_Subtract 
Debug #PB_Shortcut_Decimal 

test the NUM-Pad Keys with this little helper (borrowed from help Inkey()):

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  If OpenConsole()
    PrintN("Press Escape to exit")
  
    Repeat
      KeyPressed$ = Inkey() 
      rkey = RawKey()  

      If KeyPressed$ <> ""
        
        PrintN("You pressed: " + KeyPressed$)
        PrintN("It has a raw code of: " + Str(rkey)) 

        If rkey = #PB_Shortcut_Subtract 
          PrintN("  Subtract ")
        ElseIf rkey = #PB_Shortcut_Decimal
          PrintN("  Decimal ")   ; only if NUM is active !!! 
        EndIf 
      ElseIf rkey       
        PrintN("You pressed a non ASCII key.")
        PrintN("It has a raw code of: " + Str(rkey))
      Else
        Delay(20) ; Don't eat all the CPU time, we're on a multitask OS
      EndIf    
    Until KeyPressed$ = Chr(27) ; Wait until escape is pressed
  
    CloseConsole()  ; ? missing in the help example 
  EndIf

[Psychophanta]

Thanks to all of you.
What happens is that manual, in the list pointed by BarryG, should remark that the names are for the english keyboards only.

At the moment i solved it with

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ElseIf KeyboardReleased(#PB_Key_Minus) Or KeyboardReleased(#PB_Key_Slash) Or KeyboardReleased(#PB_Key_Subtract):blah blah blah .. ...
ElseIf KeyboardReleased(#PB_Key_PadComma) Or KeyboardReleased(#PB_Key_Decimal) Or KeyboardReleased(#PB_Key_Period):bluh bluh bluh... ...  ...