Re: programming: how to read a key?

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From: Kent Tong
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 00:00

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sdt@adhocalypso.arts.unimelb.edu.au (Stephen David Thirlwall) wrote:

>Kent Tong (freemant@wr.com.au) wrote:

>: I'd like to do the following programmtically:
>: 1. read in a key. It should accept say ctrl-A, Home, PgUp and etc.
>: 2. translate the key just read into a sequence of ascii characters.
>: Can this be done? If so, how?

>Kent,
>  Check out the Keystroke howto.

>From the introduction:

>    What is "Keystroke-HOWTO" ?

>    This document is for users, who want to assign special action to some
>    of keys of the keyboard. The suggested method is to use the loadkeys(1)
>    or to modify the defkeymap.c file and relink the kernel.

I'm afraid that's not what I really want. I'd like to know how
a program (like emacs, joe and etc) gets its keystroke input.
I could imagine there is a C RTL function or a system call to
do that but can't find anything.



---
Kent Tong
Freeman Installer ==> http://www.netnet.net/users/freeman/

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