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