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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to read the keyboard?
Message-ID: <90278.221203UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 90 02:12:03 GMT
References: <2305@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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In article <2305@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, cpb@doc.ic.ac.uk (C P Brown) says:
>
>Can anyone tell me the best Intuition-friendly way of saying
>"is the z key pressed down at the moment" (or any other key) so that
>I can detect whichever keys are being pressed?
>

I dunno if it is the best way, but you can open the keyboard.device and
send it a message.  You'll get back a bit pattern that tells you exactly
what keys are depressed.

I've got a toy ecxample around somewhere.  I based it on a chapter from
the RKM manual, Libraries and Devices.

                                      lee
>I'm aiming to do it in Modula-2, but C or assembler or any pointers in
>the right direction welcomed.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Phil