Re: Converting Type Characters to type string

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 31 Mar, 17:41, Adam Beneschan <a...@irvine.com> wrote:

> I almost never use single-character input.  The only time I would want
> to is if, for some reason, you need the program to react immediately
> to some key that's typed in (other than Return or Enter).  E.g. I've
> written programs that will do something interesting if the user
> presses the up-arrow or down-arrow keys on the keyboard.

How did you do this?
Normally, the operating system (the terminal, actually), isolates the
process from all such things and feeds the complete line of text to
the process' input queue *after* it is committed by Enter. The program
has no way to react to individual keystrokes.

Unless you talked to the terminal directly - but then it was not
Ada.Text_IO.

Did I miss something?

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