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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: CURSES
Message-ID: <1991May3.011507.14093@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 3 May 91 01:15:07 GMT
References: <1991May1.192004.25227@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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As quoted from <1991May1.192004.25227@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> by burroak@convex.cl.msu.edu (newell franks):
+---------------
| I'm having a problem with switch(c) while programming with curses. The keys 
| don't function as I thought they should. I am by no means an expert C
| 
| 	c = getch();
| 	switch(c) {
| 			case KEY_BACKSPACE:
| 			case KEY_DOWN:	field ++;
+---------------

Dumb question:  how did you declare "c"?  It should be declared as type
"chtype" (declared by curses.h) --- "char" and "unsigned char" are too short,
as the special keys are given values greater than 256.

++Brandon
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