Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!xenitec!timk
From: timk@xenitec.uucp (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dBase/FoxBase question
Summary: inkey() works well..
Keywords: foxbase, inkey(), control keys
Message-ID: <1989Aug2.004126.14625@xenitec.uucp>
Date: 2 Aug 89 00:41:26 GMT
Reply-To: timk@xenitec.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON
Lines: 45

In article <914@lakesys.UUCP> marc@lakesys.lakesys.com (Marc Rassbach) writes:
>
>A question for you all....
>
>How does one detect the keypress of a control character in dBase.
>(Actual enviro is FoxBase under SCO)

use the inkey() function. I've used something along the following 
for the applications I do when I want a character without making the 
user hit CR.

i  = 0
do while i = 0
	i = inkey()
enddo

When called, I will contain the ASCII decimal equivalent of the character
the user pressed. If you want the character value of the key the user
pressed, convert it by:

char_val = chr(i)

	or:

char_val = chr(inkey())   

if you don't want to bother with an intermediate step.


I use this under DOS all the time, and when assisting with beta-testing
I ported a DOS application over to the SCO platform, this part of the 
program had no problems at all.


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