Up through V8's HELP there was a page (keyscan.htm) that contained the scan codes returned by INKEY and some other commands. This page is no longer available. Why?
Scan codes
- Thread starter Steve Fabian
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How do we find the return value of INKEY to determine what keypress is being reported without the table? Does one need to build a table manually for each keyboard one uses?
You don't need scan codes for normal ASCII or Unicode keystrokes. If you want to get extended keystrokes (beyond the predefined ones like the F1-F12 keys), you're on your own. And whatever you come up with probably won't work on anybody else's system -- or on another one of your own systems. Or on the same system when you change your keyboard ...