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From: greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to get a function key in BSD curses
Keywords: BSD curses function-key
Message-ID: <520@gagme.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Jun 90 19:14:42 GMT
References: <502@seer.UUCP>
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In article <502@seer.UUCP> bll@seer.UUCP (Brad Lanam) writes:
>
>    Is there some easy way to get a function key using Berkeley curses?
>I don't have access to the documentation, and the O'Reilly "curses" book
>doesn't mention anything about the special keys.

Use the keypad(win,bf) function.

For example, I always do:	keypad(stdscr,1);
to turn on keypad mode.

Then, you can use the getch() function to read the keys in.  Look
at your system's curses.h file for the key definitions.  Mine has
a lot of comments explaining what they are.

Oh, you may want to call cbreak() to get into one-key-at-a-time
mode.

-greg

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