Re: Finer keystroke detection

[George Andreou]

Steve Litt wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've looked thru ncurses.h, and through man terminfo, and various other 
> docuemntation, and for the life of me I cannot find how to detect things like 
> Ctrl+Enter, Ctrl+F3, etc. These would be VERY handy for an app I'm writing.
>
> I even wrote a keystroke detection program to print out the value of 
> keystrokes as I type, and according to that program, Enter, Shift+Enter and 
> Ctrl+Enter are identical. According to my program, the alt and Ctrl keys have 
> no modification effect on function keys etc.
>
> Could you tell me how to use Curses to make these distinctions?
>
>  
Hi Steve,

I believe   man curs_inopts   is well documented, you can use several 
routines from
there to achieve your goal.

For example you can play with halfdelay() in a way where you will 
trigger the call of a new function to capture a second keyboard event or 
a third keyboard event, etc (you can even write a recursive function), 
so that you can collect all the keys.

Hint: you might need to call raw() / noraw() / cbreak() / nocbreak() 
between the capture of two consecutive control characters. Watch out, 
how these routines alter the behavior of the others (at the same man page).

Well the above is just an idea, I havent written this type of code yet. 
I hope this can help you.

> Below my sig is the detection program I used.
>
> Thanks
>
> STeve
>
> Steve Litt
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> #include <form.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>         int ch;
>         
>         initscr();
>         cbreak();
>         raw();
>         noecho();
>         keypad(stdscr, TRUE);
>         while((ch = getch()) != KEY_F(1))
>                 {
>                 touchwin(stdscr);
>                 wrefresh(stdscr);
>                 mvwprintw(stdscr, 10,1,"                                          
> ");
>                 mvwprintw(stdscr, 10,1,"You pressed char %c, number %ld", ch, 
> ch);
>                 }
>
>         endwin();
>         return 0;
> }
>
>
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