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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to read the keyboard?
Keywords: Amiga, Keyboard, Intuition
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Date: 5 Oct 90 22:16:01 GMT
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In <2305@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>, cpb@doc.ic.ac.uk (C P Brown) writes:
>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'm aiming to do it in Modula-2, but C or assembler or any pointers in
>the right direction welcomed.

Open the keyboard.device, use DoIO, and use the IO command CMD_READMATRIX

-larry

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