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From: mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Curses and the arrow keys
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.175453.4310@irscscm.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 90 17:54:53 GMT
Reply-To: mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake)
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I am writing a program which will be taking advantage of curses.  I am
trying to utilize the arrow keys and am confused (actually all of
curses confuses me).  I am doing a getch () and if I get an ESCAPE I do
another getch ().  If I addch () for each character I get (the ESCAPE
and the next character) then the cursor moves around properly on the
screen but the x/y coordinates in the window structure do not follow
suit.  Curses is recognizing the arrow keys simply as regular
characters.  Am I naive in thinking that curses is smart enough to
handle the arrow keys specially?  Should I be moving the cursor
manually via the move function?

I'm really not sure I know what I'm talking about when it comes to
curses so any help is appreciated.

Thanks.


             
                  
                                    

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