Hi, in terminals, the application interacts with text streams (0 stdin, 1 stdout, 2 stderr, and optionally others with higher numbers) so all you can get is text (including control characters). You can find documentation here https://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-streams.html . You should be able to write a program to solve https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Keyboard_input/Obtain_a_Y_or_N_response from https://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-stream-examples.html for example. This is very mature.
To work with keyboard key codes (which can represent modifiers like control or alt) in the terminal, you need a more general library. Factor has ncurses bindings which look like it should work on windows mac and linux: https://docs.factorcode.org/content/vocab-curses.html if that's what you're looking for. To work with keyboard key codes in a graphical window, you can use the UI support in the library: https://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-ui.html and more precisely https://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-ui-gestures.html and https://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-keyboard-gestures.html . You can get a feel of what kind of event you can receive by running the run-gesture-logger from extra/gesture-logger/gesture-logger.factor . Here's the output from a short session I just did: (random pressing keys on my keyboard and moving the cursor with the focus on the the black window opened by factor to have focus on it: T{ key-down } T{ key-up { mods { A+ } } } lose-focus gain-focus lose-focus gain-focus T{ key-down } T{ key-up { mods { C+ } } } T{ key-down } T{ key-down { sym "A" } } T{ key-up { sym "A" } } T{ key-up } T{ key-down } T{ key-up } T{ key-down { sym "D" } } T{ key-up { sym "D" } } T{ key-down { sym "A" } } T{ key-up { sym "A" } } T{ key-down } T{ key-up } T{ key-down { sym "RET" } } T{ key-up { sym "RET" } } T{ key-down { sym "BACKSPACE" } } T{ key-up { sym "BACKSPACE" } } mouse-enter motion motion motion motion motion mouse-leave lose-focus ) Hope that helps, feel free to ask more questions ! Cheers, Jon On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 4:58 PM Cleverson Casarin Uliana <fac...@clul.router5.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Have you implemented keyboard handling in a terminal like the Windows > command prompt? In the factor library, there is e.g. extra/key-handlers, > but it seems quite sparse. > > In Rosetta Code there is no related tasks implemented as well; see for > example the Keyboard Input related tasks at: > https://rosettacode.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Programming_Tasks&pagefrom=Four+is+magic#mw-pages > > I'd like something similar to 8th in this respect, see: > https://8th-dev.com/manual.html#key-codes > > P.S.: Apologies to the moderator for sending a message from the wrong > address earlier. > > Greetings, > Cleverson > > > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
