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Old 04-28-2009
Do you know whether ncurses supports Alt or Ctrl combination keys
I'm new in ncurses. I'd like to ask one question.

Do you know whether ncurses supports Alt or Ctrl combination keys?

Our application wants to get response when inputting Alt or Ctrl combination keys by keyboard in one linux c project.

I try one testing on ncurses, it seems ncurses doesn't support Alt combination keys,
it gets the same value for inputting A and Alt+A.

Could anyone give any suggestions on this?

Thank you for your time!
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Old 04-30-2009
Hi everyone,

NCurses is a text-based UI application.
It provides a library to facilitate function keys input.

Please see the following link:
ncurses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now my application wants to use this library, but according to my testing,
unfortunately, it seems it does not support Alt combination keys.

Can anyone give any kind suggestions on this?

Thanks in advance!
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Old 04-30-2009
It depends on whether the relevant capabilities are in the terminfo or termcap entry for your particular terminal. Read up on terminfo, tic, untic, etc.
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Old 05-01-2009
Hi fpmurphy,

Thank you for your information.

But the core header file of ncurses doesn't contain a key something like
Alt combination keys.

I mean that header file includes all the keys it supports. So if ncurses supports Alt combination key, that file should include some key identifying
Alt combination key.

Is my understanding correct?
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