Ncurses deprecated "~master" issue

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 18:13:10 UTC, Paul wrote:
> How do I get/process input?

Construct the real time input struct outside your loop then use 
getch if you're only interested in the core keyboard ascii stuff 
or nextEvent if you want everything.

The esc key, in particular, is considered a non-character key 
event by terminal.d, so it will not be there on a simple call to 
getch(). (this might have been a mistake but is the way it is)

Search the code for "void handleEvent" to see an example 
function. There's various event types you can react to and to get 
the info, you do

auto specialized_event = generic_event.get!(InputEvent.Type.TYPE 
HERE);

and look at the members. character event has ev.character. 
noncharacter event has ev.key which is an enum, defined on line 
2057.

PasteEvent doesn't work perfectly so dont' rely on it. 
MouseEvent, if you opt into them, has buttons, x, y, and 
modifierState which might be available.

See the source for each struct to see more.



If you're happy with keys from the middle part of the keyboard, 
getch is the easiest way though, they are sent as simple dchars.

You can also fetch lines at a time with terminal.getline (it is 
on terminal rather than real time input because it is still 
conceptually line buffered (though the implementation turns that 
off to allow editing)).