Re: Alternative to bioskey

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From: Alexander Russell
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 00:00

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Under dos you can hook int9 (the keyboard hardware interrupt) for complete
control.
Under win32 the directX api has a number of different ways to get keyboard
data,
and there is also GetAsyncKeyState()

for a int9 example soo common.zip at
http://users.uniserve.com/~alexad3

Derek Lavine wrote in message <362EA84C.97C0DC8E@realware.com.au>...
>Hi all,
>
>I need to use an alternative to bioskey() to read characters. I know I
>can use getch() but this does not pick up
>
>CTRL, INS, SHIFT, ALT, NUMLOCK etc.
>
>Does anyone know what function I can use. If there is not a DOS
>alternative is there a win32 API alternative
>
>Thanks
>
>Derek
>

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