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From: mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Curses and the arrow keys
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.152420.328@irscscm.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 15:24:20 GMT
References: <1990Aug24.175453.4310@irscscm.UUCP> <773@studsys.mu.edu>
Reply-To: mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake)
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In article <773@studsys.mu.edu> jetzer@studsys.UUCP (Mike Jetzer) writes:
>In article <1990Aug24.175453.4310@irscscm.UUCP> mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake) writes:
>>[questions about using the arrow keys with curses]

>Your naivete could be corrected by reading the manpage on curses.
>
>Performing a keypad() will enable the keypad on most terminals, and when
>the user presses an arrow key, the return value will be KEY_DOWN, KEY_UP,
>etc.  You can then take the proper action based on the key that the
>user actually pressed.
>
>
>-- 
>Mike Jetzer
>"And we'll have fun, fun, fun until Daddy takes the keyboard awa-ay..."


I failed to mention that I'm using ucb curses.  I believe keypad() is a
function of att curses.  Is there some way of simulating att keypad()
in the ucb environment?

-- 
Marshall Lake
mlake@irscscm.UUCP
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