Re: separate key_press and key_release events

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Da-Breegster wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:48:08 -0400, Marc Vaillant wrote:
> [snip]
> > You might try pdcurses, it might behave better.
>
> I compiled it and gave it a go, but it segfaulted frequently and had 
> other bugs. I don't have enough motivation to get it working. So from 
> what I understand, ncurses reads low-level keyboard events and generates 
> output for getch(). It correctly handles repeating, except when you 
> interrupt it with another key. If this is the case, I might hack around 
> the source and see what I can do. I'll keep the list informed of 
> anything.

no - ncurses reads character data from the terminal.  Portable terminal
applications are limited to character data.  (Other types of applications 
such as X can provide this information).

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