Re: Trapping home and end keys in 2.1

} } In article <31FE7F90.4269@west.co.za>, Mark D Stock <marks@west.co.za> says: } > } >Terry Boyland wrote: } >> } >> Here's a blast from the past } >> } >> I have a client with Informix 2.10.03F ( remember that ? ) } > } >Dot oh three, of course I do. } > } >> We need to trap the END and HOME keys in an input form in 4GL so that } >> pressing these keys will do nothing at all instead of faffing the screen } >> up. I would of thought that I can trap the termcap entry EN and kh and } >> remap them to nothing but this does not seem to work } > } >As far as I know, Informix only sees the function key definitions in termcap. Those are } >k0, k1,...etc. Make sure none of these are defined with the values returned by END and } >HOME. } > } >Define 'faffing the screen up' a little. Do they simply corrupt the screen or are they } >actually running a number of options. } > } >Two severe hacks you might try are to rip the guts out of a dummy termcap entry, } >including the function key definitions and see if the problem goes away. Or add 'ON KEY' } >clauses for all function keys in your termcap and see if any match when END and HOME are } >pressed. } > } Mark } } Thank you for your comments but I think you missed the point a little } } Neither of these keys are function keys and in fact have their own termcap } entries which I have shown in my mail as : EN for end and kh for home. } } EN is not defined but still returns a ~ and move some of the screen display to } the top of the screen. kh is defined and although within the C program which } is remapping these keys I have mapped it to various other things including } nothing it still returns the same as EN } } } To my knowledge there are no ON KEY calls to END or HOME } } Terry } Are you working in a strict terminal environment or in a terminal emulator environment? If the latter, then look for your terminal emulation software to be using terminfo and handling the keystroke - in other words Informix and hence termcap may never be seeing the keystroke. cheers j. _____________________________________________________________________________ Jack Parker - Hewlett Packard, DMD/IS Boise, Idaho, USA jparker@boi.hp.com Currently on loan to PLD/PE _____________________________________________________________________________ If anything can go wrong, fix it. To hell with Murphy. _____________________________________________________________________________ Any opinions expressed herein are my own and not those of my employers. _____________________________________________________________________________