I need to read in the Arrow Keys (up,down, left, right) from the keyboard. There are no standard ASCII values for these keys (atleast not that I am aware of). I am working on Linux OS. My keyboard input function uses getchar().
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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ncursesOriginally Posted by nkhambal
arrow keys have ascii equivalents. try experimenting using getch()
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Here's the relavent FAQ: http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392
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And why do you assume he uses Borland compiler? (if there even is one for Linux)arrow keys have ascii equivalents. try experimenting using getch()
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I can not use ncurse. And I do not have conio.h on linux to use getch(). I have to use getchar() somehow. Is there a way to work it out without getch().
The faq posted was using getch(). I can't use it. I couldn't find much on google.
We don't, but hey, it's VERY likely... Or one could try *curses. (ncurses, pdcurses...)And why do you assume he uses Borland compiler?
nkhambal: well arrow key values appear to be very fairly distributed across systems. On Linux the leading byte appears to be 0, on my XP it's 224. It might be easier to use more consistent characters like [wasd] or [8456]. You could try allowing the user to set the values, but then this would not be cnvenient in small code snippets. The best solution is to interface your platform's native API.
getchar() uses buffered input, meaning whatever is input is filtered and processed by the system first. The system will take all arrow keys and use them for other things (say, letting the user move the caret around when typing in text) and the result is standard functions like getchar() and fgets() don't get these special characters. You have to bypass the buffering using platform-dependant methods.
P.S: It might be interesting to collect (eg. a survey) various compiler and env usage statistics for programmers of varying proficiency levels and occupations, and comparing them. Any takers?
Last edited by jafet; 11-11-2006 at 07:21 AM.
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