On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Bill Buckels wrote:
"Steve Nickolas" <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:The value 127 can be pulled from a PC keyboard by pressing Ctrl-Bksp.The DELETE key in AppleWin does the same thing. Both work.What is called Backspace on a PC is called Delete on an Apple.I'll post this again in case he didn't hear you... he will need to write his own string routines to use DELETE instead of chr$(8) because C routines like gets() that are already available to him use chr$(8) so he can't use them.
It would be idiotic to use getch()-like functions without being aware that not all systems use the same keycodes.
I usually use separate functions for PC and Apple, which translate between the Apple 8/21/11/10/127 and the PC -75/-77/-72/-80/8 etc.
...of course this doesn't mean anything to Mr. Ask A Ton Of Questions And Never Reply But Make A Bunch Of Useless Shareware No One Will Buy.
-uso.