Re: [LINUX5250] Keyboard mapping overview

[Brian McGrogan <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can turn on the trace functionality (trace=trace.txt) and the look at
the lines that say "@key XX", where XX is the decimal representation of
the key received.  This is shown in display.c.

-brian

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Buck Calabro wrote:

> I'm not a PC guy of any sort (win* or *nix) so my attempts to decipher the
> code that handles the keyboard has been futile.  I use the Windows version
> of TN5250.  I was hoping to be able to map my keyboard in a configuration
> file, but just trying to figure out what key is where has me beat.
>
> I'm looking at terminal.h and I see a list of #define's like:
> #define K_SYSREQ      0401    /* curses KEY_BREAK */
> #define K_CLEAR               0515    /* curses KEY_CLEAR */
> #define K_REFRESH     0564    /* curses KEY_REFRESH */
> #define K_FIELDEXIT   0517    /* curses KEY_EOL (clear to EOL) */
>
> Where can I find out where curses thinks these keys are?
>
> What I really want is the functionality that allows me to jump from 'word'
> to 'word', which looks like curses KEY_SRIGHT but shift+arrow doesn't seem
> to do it for me.  I searched the web but found nothing but manpages about
> the output from getch() and friends.
>
> Where can I go to find out what physical key equates to the various curses
> key definitions?
>   --buck
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