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From:Dan Arico
Date:27 Sep 2000 at 17:33:12
Subject:Re: EventCodes and Keys

On 27-Sep-00, Gareth Griffiths wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is probably really obvious, but when I'm scanning for a
> keypress event (IDCMP $400) in a loop, and it detects one, how do I
> get the ASCII code of that character?
>
> I've tried EventCode, and it just returns the decimal equivalent of
> the rawkey codes in the back of the manual. Short of creating a
> lookup table, is there any way of getting the ASCII equivalent of
> this rawkey code?

Set up an array of ASCII codes and use the key value as an index.
You'll have something like this:

ASCII = keyarray[keycode]

Dan Arico


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