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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Problem reading in function keys with curses
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.031036.16988@virtech.uucp>
Date: 14 Jul 90 03:10:36 GMT
References: <1990Jul13.095337.8429@unx.sas.com>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Jul13.095337.8429@unx.sas.com> jwd@unx.sas.com (John W. DeBoskey) writes:
>   mwin = newwin(LINES-3,COLS-2,1,1);
>
>   rc = -2; rc = keypad(stdscr,TRUE); /* returns a garbage value */
                         ^^^^^^
>      cmd = wgetch(mwin); /* Never returns a function key def */

If you want to do a wgetch(mwin) you need to do a keypad(mwin)

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