1. RE: Linux and Euphoria...
Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Monday 22 April 2002 12:16 am, you wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Been having a tough time with Euphoria and Linux. Everything seems to
> > work great via the console yet when I go to X and use Euphoria via
> > terminals I run into problems. Testing various terminals, some just do
> > not pickup the key codes correctly. For example, under xterm when F1 is
> > pressed key.ex (included with euphoria) shows 3 keys were pressed (27,
> > 79, 80). Most terminals I've tested (Konsole, xterm, gnome-terminal,
> > eterm) will give this same result. However, one exception is rxvt. It
> > will display 265 (correctly) for F1, but the other keys
> > (Home/End/Delete/All of the keypad) are messed up which isn't the case
> > of the others.
>
> I can't be of much help, except to say that I've just run key.ex in all
> the
> terminals I have available, and the keys all work correctly.
> Since the problem varies from one terminal to another, perhaps
> you can find the problem in etc/termcap, or by running infocmp
> and looking for the key bindings. Try infocmp from different terminals,
> and see if there are differences.
>
> Regards,
> Irv
While working with the Euphoria source code on Linux, I was
observing the codes returning from the Function keys
I saw the same mention three key code sequences being returned.
I was using Suse 7.1 and runing in graphics mode but
using the keyboard codes returning from Euphoria. I do
not know the cause of the problem but it seems to be
coming Euphoria, I didn't go any further because I had
run into other problems which I am still trying to solve.
Bernie
2. RE: Linux and Euphoria...
Doug Miller wrote:
> Irv and Bernie,
>
> Could you provide if you use termcap or console-tools? And possibly the
> version? And maybe the function keys related area (just a small snip) of
> the config file?
>
> Thanks,
>
Doug:
I start/run my euphoria programs from KDE2 by typing in a console
window. I installed SUSE 7.1 out of the box with all of its
default settings, I'am not smart enough to play with the
configuration files, etc.
Bernie
3. RE: Linux and Euphoria...
Linux (UNIX, also) has had to handle the problem of multitudes of
terminals that react in different ways for a long time. Nobody wants to
have to write 700 versions of a program to be able to handle all the
terminal types out there, so the TERMCAP approach was developed. If U
look at the termcap file (usually in /usr/share/misc/), U will find that
it is a text file which is actually a database with an entry describing
the TERMinal CAPabilities of each type of terminal. The format of the
database is described in the section 5 termcap manpage (I think). For a
single user, or a group of like-minded users, I think Daniel has the
right approach - customize X so that the desired characters are sent for
each key.
Thx, Phil Long
euphoria at ahava.f9.co.uk wrote:
> On 21/4/2002, Doug Miller wrote:
>
> > Been having a tough time with Euphoria and Linux. Everything seems to
> > work great via the console yet when I go to X and use Euphoria via
> > terminals I run into problems. Testing various terminals, some just do
> > not pickup the key codes correctly. For example, under xterm when F1 is
> > pressed key.ex (included with euphoria) shows 3 keys were pressed (27,
> > 79, 80). Most terminals I've tested (Konsole, xterm, gnome-terminal,
> > eterm) will give this same result. However, one exception is rxvt. It
> > will display 265 (correctly) for F1, but the other keys
> > (Home/End/Delete/All of the keypad) are messed up which isn't the case
> > of the others.
> > If anyone has this working under X just fine, please let me know. It's
> > really getting annoying now.
>
> It works fine in xterm for me, and always has done. I'm using Debian's
> stable distro.
>
> I use a custom xmodmap (dvorak keyboard layout + Hebrew) but back when I
> was still using qwerty it also worked fine.
>
> --
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