Re: keyname

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, willett wrote:

> I'm enjoying using ncurses, which work great.  Question/bug report follows.
>
> Am I understanding function keyname correctly?
>
> It returns the internal variable name as a string.  That is, a program 
> calling
>  keyname(KEY_F1)
>
> will return the string
>  "KEY_F(1)"
>
> But to be useful for a program presenting key prompts to a user,
> the programmer would want this function to return a string like "F1".

It is a little odd, but that's what other implementations do.
It's the same as the definition from curses.h would be.

> I've written a routine to clean up the returned key labels, but I was
> wondering if there's another ncurses function I'm missing, or if
> this is the intended behavior, or I this might get changed in the
> future.

no, it's intended behavior

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