[nylug-workshop] DTK Holiday Work

[Dan Crosta]

On Dec 3, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Unless I'm missing something, I think that the mode you want for DTK
> is self.scr.keypad(True).
>
> See the attached script to see why I think this is. See what values
> are returned when keypad is enabled vs. disabled.
>
> Of course, tell me if I'm completely wrong :)
>
> -Peter


Well I think there was a reason I had not used that method --  
possibly just that I couldn't get it to work last time I tried. The  
troublesome keys are always the non-letter keys: page up, page down,  
end, home and friends; arrows; and the Fn keys, F1, F2, etc...

I'll be in DC this week presenting Trackle at LISA, but if the group  
wants to work this into CursesEngine.py and InputHandler.py (probably  
mostly into CursesEngine) then I will review any patches that result  
and include them if they end up working better or result in cleaner  
code than is currently in there (the latter, at least, seems somewhat  
likely). The curses module defines a bunch of constants [1] that  
might also be helpful for this.

- d


[1] http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/node221.html