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Re: read DEL and BACK key from stdin

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: read DEL and BACK key from stdin
Date	2011-12-09 10:29 -0800
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:31:39 -0800 (PST), xdevel1999
<xdevel1999@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

>Is it possible to read DEL and BACKSPACE keys from standard in?

I don't think you see anything until the user hits enter.

If you want to see things in a keystroke by keystroke way you need
some sort of gui TextField or the like where you can intercept the
event for each keystroke.

The other way to do it is to use C.
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For me, the appeal of computer programming is that
even though I am quite a klutz,
I can still produce something, in a sense
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chances as I please to get it right.

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read DEL and BACK key from stdin xdevel1999 <xdevel1999@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 07:31 -0800
  Re: read DEL and BACK key from stdin Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 08:19 -0800
  Re: read DEL and BACK key from stdin Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-09 10:29 -0800

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