OpenEuphoria

Re: 3.0.3 Release Candidate for Windows/DOS

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> May 30, 2007
• 677 views

Hi Jacques, you wrote:

> I Juergen,
> Strangely I don't get the same result as you. I translated key.ex with
> euphoria
> 3.0.2 and Borland compiler and contrary to you I don't get the ESC and
> function
> keys.
> Its not really a surprise to me because When using borland or LCC, the backend
> use win32api function ReadConsole()
> and before calling wingetch() get_key() SetConsoleMode with
> ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT
> flag.

<snip>

After I had translated 'key.ex' with the Eu 3.0.3 Release Candidate and
compiled with Borland, I realized that the program doesn't return a code
e.g. for ESC and the function keys. _For me_ it was a surprise, because
I do not know the internal stuff, and because in the documentation of
get_key() it reads:
| Special codes are returned for the function keys, arrow keys etc.
Neither in the documentation of get_key() nor of wait_key() there is a
comment concerning this issue with Borland and LCC.

Then I tested the same with the current Eu 3.0.2, but probably by mistake
I translated/compiled with Watcom instead of Borland. So it wrongly looked
to me that the same thing worked fine with Eu 3.0.2. I'm sorry.

Regards,
   Juergen