detecting function or cursor key press

[JoshuaH82]

I'm having problems detecting the function keys, or any non ASCII character for that matter. getch() doesn't work when it comes to picking those keys up. Is there a function anywhere that will detect the non-standard key pressed or any tips on doing it? I'm running linux 2.4.2 with gcc. Also, I'm using curses.h

 

[JoshuaH82]

Looks like I answered my own question...here's how:

/*
* First off, curses.h's #define macros for the F keys don't work.
* I took each F key I needed and #defined it explicitly. Then, using
* curses.h's keypad() function, I told curses which windows I wanted
* to process these special keys from. Then I compared the int returned
* by wgetch() with my #defines...
*/

#define KEY_F5 0415 /* F5 key to exit */
...
keypad(mywindow);
...
int key;
key = wgetch(mywindow);
switch(key)
{
case KEY_F5:
done = 1; /* exit loop */
break;
}

 

[SwapSawe]

Using getch() will work; u can directly refer to scan codes. for this code will be :

ch=getch();
if(ch==0)
{
if(ch==72)
{
printf("Down Arrow key Pressed."
}
}

Regards,
SwapSawe.

 

[JoshuaH82]

Swap,

This doesn't work with the function keys tho. And I tried getch() on different keys on different systems and the scan codes weren't consistent.