Ncurses deprecated "~master" issue

[Paul via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 18:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:
> 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)).

Perfect, thank you again for a thorough answer.