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From: boutell@vanilla.it.udel.edu (Tom Boutell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Quickbasic Arrows
Keywords: BASIC Quickbasic
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Date: 22 Feb 90 20:24:10 GMT
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I've hit a minor problem in working with Microsoft Quickbasic: there doesn't
seem to be any reliable way to recognize the shifted and ctrl-ed arrow keys
from a program. The shifted keypad arrows certainly can't be adequately
allowed for by reading them as numbers (eg shift left arrow, get back its
num lock equivalent), since I need to be able to *read* numbers! Any ideas?
I can do without this if absolutely necessary, but it's pretty awful con-
sidering how intuitive "arrow, shifted- arrow, control- arrow" is as a 
progression in terms of cursor speed.

Am I gonna have to call DOS to get these? Hoo boy. (-:

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