Re: Can you help me about the following questions about ncurses

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, yan liu wrote:

> Dear ncurses maintenance team,
>
> I'm studying curses now and want to build a Text-based User Interface with
> it. But I find curses cann't handle keys such as *shifted F1, shifted F2,
> shifted F3~shifted F10, shifted Tab, Ctrl Home, Ctrl End, Ctrl PGUP, Ctrl
> PGDN, Ctrl Backspace*.  It is really appreciated if you can give me some
> suggestions, many thanks!

curses "doesn't" because this is a feature not generally supported by
terminals.

Some terminals (xterm for instance) can send different escape sequences 
for function-keys that are modified (shift, control, etc).  ncurses' 
terminfo entries can hold this data, and using tigetstr and define key you 
can make ncurses know about the codes that you'd like to use for working 
with them.

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