Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 18:06:44 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk> To: root@goff.comtat.kazan.su (System Administrator) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get state of ctrl, alt, shift keys ? Message-ID: <199708081606.SAA02524@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <AA5VpwpqZ5@goff.comtat.kazan.su> from System Administrator at "Aug 8, 97 03:14:13 pm"
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In reply to System Administrator who wrote:
> Hi, All!
>
> Can anybody help me? I need for my programm to get stat of the keys
> ctl,alt,shift - well, You know for this combinations, like Ctrl+PgUP
> and so on. Question: How can I do this? In Linux I use ioctl call
> with parameter TIOCLINUX and get (int) with values. Is there are
> some similar simple way to FreeBSD ? I would be thankful for reply
> to this question. And, if it is possible, send a copy of reply to
> my E-mail, cause I'm not in mailinglist :(
You can use the KDGKBSTATE ioctl to read the modifier keys, see <console.h>
What do you want that for ?? If you need different value for ctrl/alt PgUP
then you could modify the keymap to return different values, that should
be alot easier...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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