From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: key strokes intercept
Date: 1999/04/02
Date: 1999-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F9KE50.42@jvdsys.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3705227f.749682976@news.dsuper.net
fluffy_doo@dsuper.net wrote:
: So right now there's no way to do what I want if I'm writing a DOS
: program ? I have maybe two weeks to get it into my program if I
: decide that I want to try. I'd use it as part of a password input
: procedure, you know the asterix replacing whatever is typed in at the
: keyboard. Someone in this thread mentioned the text_IO.get_immediate
: function, and I thought maybe I could try to use it and replace the
: key code (or whatever I`ll have to play with) with the backspace
: followed by the asterix, if I can't actually turn off the screen ECHO.
If you are using the DOS compiler, why not use the conio binding that
comes with EZ2LOAD or on my homepage ?
One of the functions is:
Getch
-----
Returns the character pressed. Unbuffered, no echo to the screen.
It has a lot of other useful functions too.
--
-- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland
-- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org
-- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-30 0:00 key strokes intercept fluffy_puff
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-04-05 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Magnus Larsson
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-31 0:00 ` fluffy_bud
1999-03-30 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-31 0:00 ` fluffy_bud
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-31 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-04-01 0:00 ` fluffy_doo
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
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