Curses and the arrow keys

[Marshall Lake]

I am writing a program which will be taking advantage of curses.  I am
trying to utilize the arrow keys and am confused (actually all of
curses confuses me).  I am doing a getch () and if I get an ESCAPE I do
another getch ().  If I addch () for each character I get (the ESCAPE
and the next character) then the cursor moves around properly on the
screen but the x/y coordinates in the window structure do not follow
suit.  Curses is recognizing the arrow keys simply as regular
characters.  Am I naive in thinking that curses is smart enough to
handle the arrow keys specially?  Should I be moving the cursor
manually via the move function?

I'm really not sure I know what I'm talking about when it comes to
curses so any help is appreciated.

Thanks.


             
                  
                                    

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