Hi, is it possible to capture a key combination such as alt and f or alt and e. I've tried capturing the ascii values, but only the single characters are captured and not the combination. It's basically for a menu system that i'm trying to develope, for a windows console.
Builder 5, win 98. Thanks for any help.
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You will probably want to write something like
Code:if (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_ALT)) { if (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_F)) { // alt-f } }
You can't capture alt-f though with standard c++;
this should really should be on the windows board.
That's just what I was going to ask... is this for a Windows/console or DOS program?
for a menu system that i'm trying to develope, for a windows console
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Is the GetAsyncKeyState() an api function? Therefore, i'll have to include windows.h for a header file?
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Yes it is an api function, so you do have to include windows.h.
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Actually, the proper code is:
You can get a list of the GetAsyncKeyState constants here.Code:if (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_MENU)) { if (GetAsyncKeyState(36)) { // alt-f } }
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What return value is the if statement testing? Cos, the if the most significant bit is set, the key is down, and if the least significant bit is set, the key was pressed after the previous call to GetAsyncKeyState. Therefore, shouldn’t the if condition be testing for the most significant bit using "=="?
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Isn't there a byte somewhere that holds ctrl, alt, shift, numlock, scrolllock, capslock, and insert? I seem to remember pokin at it in my QBASIC days.
OK now I looked it up and its the 1047th byte from DEF SEG 0.
The bits are Insert, Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock, Alt, Ctrl, Left Shift, Right Shift.
So theoretically if you could load that byte into an unsigned char and then AND it against char(8) the result would tell you if the ALT key was down, and no massivesoft code required.
Now, does anyone know how to get a specific byte from a known segment offset into an unsigned char?
To be more proper & by 0x8000 because the windows sparse documentation only specifies that it's 0 if another process or window as keyboard focus. I suppose the bit pattern
being 0x0110 when the key is up. I've never heard of anyone having a problem doing it the way mentioned with VK_MENU.
Exactly this should be on the window's board. You could dofor a menu system that i'm trying to develope, for a windows console
this with poking at memory like in dos and have it not compile.
My bet is that you could also do this with getch but it wouldn't handle as good.
Would someone just be able to tell me what condition the if statement is testing?
An if statement can only be evaluated and executed if the condition is true. The GetAsyncKeyState() function returns a short int, so how can that return be either true or false for the if statement to work.if (GetAsyncKeyState(VK_MENU))
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Can no one answer the above question then?
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Return Values
If the function succeeds, the return value specifies whether the key was pressed since the last call to GetAsyncKeyState, and whether the key is currently up or down. If the most significant bit is set, the key is down, and if the least significant bit is set, the key was pressed after the previous call to GetAsyncKeyState. The return value is zero if a window in another thread or process currently has the keyboard focus.
Windows 95: Windows 95 does not support the left- and right-distinguishing constants. If you call GetAsyncKeyState with these constants, the return value is zero.
But shouldn't the function be returning a bool, e.g true or false?
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