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Article #2284Testing for ALT keypress
From: Michael D Mellinger
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 01:45
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 1990 01:45
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I am trying to test when a user presses ALT-h, but am not having much
luck. I found these two library routines in the Microsoft C 6.0
library reference manual, but they don't seem to do the trick for ALT
key sequences(They work fine for Cntrl and Shift keys, however). I
was masking ch with 0xff to get the proper ascii character and testing
bit 3 in altpress. Is there something else that I have to do?
ch = _bios_keybrd(_KEYBRD_READ); /* get keypress */
altpress = _bios_keybrd(_KEYBRD_SHIFTSTATUS); /* get modifier */
Also, what is a good C programming book for DOS and the IBM?
A couple of years ago I thought that DOS would die off(OS/2 taking its
place), and that I would never have to go through the drudgery of
learning to program in it. It seems I was wrong :-(.
-Mike
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Testing for ALT keypress Message-ID: <Fdatuc52@cs.psu.edu> Date: 19 Sep 90 01:45:27 GMT Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: comp Organization: /home/server2/melling/.organization Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: client6.cs.psu.edu