Re: Unable to trap F3-F10 Keys

On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Mulaveesala Ravishankar wrote: > In my 4GL program I am unable to trap F3 to F10 Keys. My TERM is > set to ansi and TERMCAP is set to $INFORMIXDIR/termcap. My I4GL > version is 6.05. > > I would like to know what is the reason? What key codes do your F3..F10 keys send to the program? What key codes does the ansi termcap in $INFORMIXDIR/termcap say are sent to the program? Why are they different? > How to overcome this problem? Fix the termcap entry so they are the same! You need to be looking at termcap entries k2..k9 (because Informix thinks that F1 is described by k0, F2 is described by k1, and F10 is described by k9, whereas everybody else who uses termcap thinks that F1 is described by k1, F2 is described by k2, and F10 is described by k0). If your termcap is similar to mine, then there are no function keys described in the ansi terminal description. Try looking at the scoansi termcap entry; that has descriptions for F1..F36. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN PS: If you need to know more about termcap, get the O'Reilly book on reading and writing termcap entries.