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7987 :: Process input on TUI (illwill)

• DontForceMe (orginal) [2021-05-16T13:32:28+02:00] view original

  Hey everyone

  I'm using the illwill library for building a TUI app, but I'm running into a problem I want to get the key that the user types, but if I press a key this happens: C key give ---> "C" c key gives ---> "C" (instead of "c" space key gives ---> "Space" (instead of " ") Does anyone know how to solve this? I want to get either the character ("c", " ", "y", "A"....) or the keycode (65, 32, 13....) I'm using the getKey() proc

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• sekao (orginal) [2021-05-16T13:44:46+02:00] view original

  You can get the key code with getKey().ord and the character with char(getKey().ord). Wrap the second one in a try/except though, because it will throw if a non-printable key is pressed.

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2021-05-16T14:25:11+02:00] view original

  I've done it like this in illwillwidgets: https://github.com/enthus1ast/illwillWidgets/blob/6dbe6f8d7eccc5c2dd9676e1b6d0fb3884f5cd2d/src/illwillWidgets.nim#L507

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• DontForceMe (orginal) [2021-05-16T20:47:46+02:00] view original

  @enthus1ast @sekao Thx a lot. I ended up using sekao's solution and it's working very well thx

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