Cursor key input in curses ?
Leonard Peirce
peirce at gumby.cc.wmich.edu
Thu Apr 25 00:01:34 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr20.160134.1514 at urz.unibas.ch> doelz at urz.unibas.ch writes:
>How do you input cursor keys in curses ?
>
>Background:
>I want to show a menu on the screen which is similar to the one you get from
>SMG$ on VAX/VMS. The curses package available in C gives the problem
>that the cursor key is read either as terminator or as a sequence of three
>characters (e.g., <ESC> [ A ) in vt100 emulation instead of a cursor key.
This was fixed in 4.0 although not completely. I complained to DEC on
numerous occasions when I was running 3.x and they finally sent me a patch
but it only fixed the cursor keys. Keys like Prev Screen, Next Screen,
Find, etc., were still broken. I was hoping everything would be fixed in
4.x. Sigh.....
Sometime ago, someone posted here what the problem was. It was something
like a parameter being passed to a subroutine incorrectly. I looked for it
in what seems like an endless archive of stuff that I save but I couldn't
find it.
I would SPR this myself but I'm too busy trying to fix LAT printing. Maybe
sometime this week or early next week I'll have something to post about it.
Grrr.....
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