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Sensing keypresses on the IIgs

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From	James Kruth <james@kruth.org>
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Subject	Sensing keypresses on the IIgs
Date	Sat, 01 Feb 2020 16:11:17 -0500
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I've been writing some text based programs using ORCA/M on the IIgs to
learn about 65816 assembly and using the IIgs toolbox. Just using the
text tools I've managed to do a good deal of what I set out to
accomplish, but now I find myself a bit stuck when it comes to keyboard
input.

Specifically I'd like to sense when a key is pressed and act on it
rather than waiting for input. The text tools provide me with good tools
for dealing with synchronous user input, but neither the text tools or
the GS/OS .CONSOLE driver seem to handle asynch input, like what you
might expect in a game.

I've been reading the toolbox manuals and the event manager sounds like
it might provide what I need, but it's not clear if I can use it with
text based programs and I thought I'd ask here before coding up a test.

Thanks in advance for your help!

- James

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Sensing keypresses on the IIgs James Kruth <james@kruth.org> - 2020-02-01 16:11 -0500
  Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs jgandersen@gmail.com - 2020-02-01 14:17 -0800
    Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs James Kruth <james@kruth.org> - 2020-02-01 23:10 -0500
      Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs kegs@provalid.com (Kent Dickey) - 2020-02-01 23:17 -0600
        Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs James Kruth <james@kruth.org> - 2020-02-08 22:30 -0500
          Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs kegs@provalid.com (Kent Dickey) - 2020-02-09 15:26 -0600
  Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs Andy McFadden <thefadden@gmail.com> - 2020-02-02 07:52 -0800
    Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs James Kruth <james@kruth.org> - 2020-02-03 00:10 -0500
      Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs Andy McFadden <thefadden@gmail.com> - 2020-02-03 07:52 -0800
  Sensing keypresses on the IIgs gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2020-02-02 13:07 -0800
    Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs James Kruth <james@kruth.org> - 2020-02-02 23:57 -0500
      Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2020-02-02 21:25 -0800
      Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs kelvin@pro-kegs.uucp (Kelvin Sherlock) - 2020-02-05 00:06 -0500
        Re: Sensing keypresses on the IIgs James Kruth <james@kruth.org> - 2020-02-08 22:56 -0500

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