From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2fab47507cfaddb7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John_Lin@paramount.com (Johnny) Subject: Re: Ord Function HELP Please HELP HELP HELP Date: 1998/12/14 Message-ID: <367a8e82.21045996@news.smartlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 422005805 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36756d56.12552904@news.smartlink.net> <36748403.109022624@news.pacbell.net> <3679891d.19665290@news.smartlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: DigiLink Network Services Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:56:42 GMT, Matthew Heaney wrote: >John_Lin@paramount.com (Johnny) writes: > >> On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:21:52 GMT, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote: >> >> >Do you mean integer'image(5) >> >which gives " 5"? or do you mean "fifth"? >> >> >> Hi, Thank You for your msg, >> I'm a new ada coder, and I have run into a small problem, I can't find >> a function that will return the ASCII converted number for any key >> pressed on the keyboard, example: user hits the backspace key, I >> would like to be able to catch the key however, without a function to >> convert the ASCII representation to #8, we would have no idea that he >> pressed the backspace. In VB it's the "CHR" function in Pascal it's >> the "Ord" function, ADA95 does not list this function anywhere that I >> can find, I am hoping it is built into the compiler, however, I think >> I may need to dload a Package. >> >> Any Help is much appreciated, >> >> Thnx ,Johnny > > >Use Get_Immediate to deliver the character corresponding to the key, >then convert that character to its integer code by using Character'Pos. Thank You Very Very Much, Will implement the Character'Pos tonight, Thanks to your help, Thank goodness for Usenet and nice people