From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: ncurses
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:58:24 GMT, wroot AT my-deja DOT com wrote:

>How can I read one keystroke from the keyboard (including but
>not limited to arrow movements, PgUp, PgDn, Del)? I've heard
>it is done with ncurses/curses. If someone could tell me
>which function, header file and namespace I should use, I would
>appreciate it.

If you don't care about porting your program in the future, use conio:

#include <conio.h>
int GetKey()
{
  int n = getch();
  if(n)
    return n;
  else
    return getch() << 8;
}

This will get regular keypresses in bits 0-7 or extended (Fkey,
arrows, PageUp, etc.) keypresses in bits 8-15.

If you want portability, use PDCurses or Allegro.  PDCurses implements
nearly the same API as the ncurses textmode screen control library,
and Allegro runs on DOS, Windows, GNU/Linux, and most UNIXes with X11.

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