Re: separate key_press and key_release events

[Marc Vaillant]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:59:13PM -0500, Da-Breegster wrote:
> My ASCII art ncurses game is proceeding with few bumps, but I've hit another 
> problem. In
> SDL, a key event has an explicit type of being pressed or released. This 
> allows for
> characters in games to move right (by holding right), jump (by tapping up), 
> and continue
> moving right (because the right arrow key is still depressed). There seems to 
> be no
> equivalent in ncurses; getch() returns a simple keypress. Pressing and 
> holding a key fires
> repeated events correctly, but if the sequence is interrupted with a tap of 
> the up key, no
> more right_arrow keys come in. The player has to release and repress the 
> right key.

I've had the same issues when trying to prototype an app in ncurses that
makes heavy use of the mouse.  

> 
> 1) Is this caused by my terminal emulator (urxvt) or X? It seems to occur 
> anywhere.
> 2) Is ncurses designed like this for a reason and is there a way to "correct" 
> the above
> behavior?
> 
> I know I could read off /dev/input and parse it and roll my own keyboard 
> handling, but
> I'd prefer not to for this purpose.

You might try pdcurses, it might behave better.
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Breeg
> 
> 
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