Thread: How to ignore arrow key pressing

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    How to ignore arrow key pressing

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                             while(choice != 'f' && choice != 'm')
                             {
                                 if(kbhit())
                                 {
                                          choice = getch();
                                          if(choice == 0)
                                          {
                                          	choice = getch();
                                          }
                                 }
                                 if(isalpha(choice))
                                 {
                                    choice = tolower(choice);
                                 }
                             }
    When i press an arrow key i get 1 of 4 values (M,H,L,P)
    How do i avoid this. Trying to block the value of the extended arrowkey causes me to block also the Capital letter. such as
    Code:
    if(c == 0x04b)
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    Hello? A little help?
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    So, I'm not sure what exactly you want to know. You are checking whether it was an arrow/special key, with your test ==0. If you don't want the key code in that case, just do getch() instead of choice = getch().

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    I want the user to either press Capital or small F/M but they can press right arrow and it outputs an m i want to know how to avoid this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathan the noob View Post
    I want the user to either press Capital or small F/M but they can press right arrow and it outputs an m i want to know how to avoid this.
    So if it's a special key don't keep the keypress.
    Code:
                             while(choice != 'f' && choice != 'm')
                             {
                                 if(kbhit())
                                 {
                                          choice = getch();
                                          if(choice == 0)
                                          {
                                            /*You keep saying you don't want this key SO DON'T READ IT IN
                                          	choice = getch(); */
                                            getch(); /*to discard the special key*/
                                          }
                                 }
                                 if(isalpha(choice))
                                 {
                                    choice = tolower(choice);
                                 }
                             }

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    If i remove it from the eqaution and press Any of the 4 arrows or home end page up/down or delete i get a letter of the alphabet. Im on windows xp.

    Like Left arrow = K.
    Right Arrow = M.
    Last edited by Nathan the noob; 04-01-2010 at 10:16 PM.
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    So look at the following:
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    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <conio.h>
    #include <ctype.h>
    int main(void) {
        char choice = ' ';
        while(choice != 'f' && choice != 'm')
        {
            if(kbhit())
            {
                choice = getch();
                if(choice == 0)
                {
                    /*You keep saying you don't want this key SO DON'T READ IT IN
                      choice = getch(); */
                    getch(); /*to discard the special key*/
                }
                printf("choice = %d", choice); /*print out code value to see it*/
            }
            if(isalpha(choice))
            {
                choice = tolower(choice);
            }
        }
    
        return 0;
    }
    This will print the actual codes you are getting. The getch() page on MSDN says that it can return 0x0 OR 0xE0 for a special key. If the latter, you'll probably see "choice = -32choice=102" or whatever. So you would need to check both in that case.

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    Code:
    while(choice != 'f' && choice != 'm')
                             {
                                 if(kbhit())
                                 {
                                          choice = getch();
                                          if(choice == 0)
                                          {
                                          	getch();
                                          }
                                 }
    			     printf("choice = %d", choice);
                                 if(choice == -32 && choice == 75 || choice == -32 && choice == 73 ||
    				choice == -32 && choice == 72 || choice == -32 && choice == 71 ||
    				choice == -32 && choice == 77 || choice == -32 && choice == 79 ||
    				choice == -32 && choice == 80 || choice == -32 && choice == 81 ||
    				choice == -32 && choice == 83)
                                 {
                                 	choice = '-';
                                 }
                                 cout<<"\b\b\b   \b\b\b";
                                 cout <<choice;
                                 if(isalpha(choice))
                                 {
                                    choice = tolower(choice);
                                 }
    }
    For some reason i still output letters.
    Last edited by Nathan the noob; 04-01-2010 at 10:54 PM.
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    choice can't possibly be both -32 and 75 at the same time, can it?
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                             while(choice != 'f' && choice != 'm')
                             {
                                 if(kbhit())
                                 {
                                          choice = getch();
                                          if(choice == 0 || choice == -32)
                                          {
                                            /*You keep saying you don't want this key SO DON'T READ IT IN
                                          	choice = getch(); */
                                            getch(); /*to discard the special key*/
                                          }
                                 }
                                 if(isalpha(choice))
                                 {
                                    choice = tolower(choice);
                                 }
                             }

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    Oh but above you said i would need to check both incase. And Lol i just made it so when ch = -32 ch = '-' and that worked .

    When is ch not 0 and -32? PS thank you very much .
    Last edited by Nathan the noob; 04-01-2010 at 11:05 PM.
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