| Description | This unit contains all the constants representing both the characters and their ordinal values for all possible keystrokes that can be read by Turing. Constants beginning with “KEY_” are char values. These are the values returned by getch and used as an index into the Input.KeyDown array. The constants that the constants KEY_KEYPAD_5, KEY_SHIFT, KEY_CTRL and KEY_ALT can only be used in conjunction with Input.KeyDown. The getch and getchar subprograms do not return these values. All other constants with with SHIFT, CTRL and ALT as part of the name cannot be checked for in the Input.KeyDown array. Constants beginning with “ORD_” are int values and represent the ordinal values (values returned by the ord function) for all the possible keystrokes. Here is a list of most of the constants
KEY_ALT_F1 .. KEY_ALT_F12
| KEY_HOME | KEY_CTRL_HOME | ||||||||||
| KEY_UP_ARROW | KEY_CTRL_UP_ARROW | ||||||||||||
| KEY_PGUP | KEY_CTRL_PGUP | ||||||||||||
| KEY_LEFT_ARROW | KEY_CTRL_LEFT_ARROW | ||||||||||||
| KEY_RIGHT_ARROW | KEY_CTRL_RIGHT_ARROW | ||||||||||||
| KEY_END | KEY_CTRL_END | ||||||||||||
| KEY_DOWN_ARROW | KEY_CTRL_DOWN_ARROW | ||||||||||||
| KEY_PGDN | KEY_CTRL_PGDN | ||||||||||||
| KEY_INSERT | KEY_CTRL_INSERT | ||||||||||||
| KEY_DELETE | KEY_CTRL_DELETE | ||||||||||||
| KEY_BACKSPACE | KEY_KEYPAD_5 * | ||||||||||||
| KEY_TAB | KEY_SHIFT * | ||||||||||||
| KEY_ENTER | KEY_CTRL * | ||||||||||||
| KEY_ESC | KEY_ALT * | ||||||||||||
| KEY_CTRL_OPEN_BRACKET | KEY_CTRL_BACKSLASH | ||||||||||||
| KEY_CTRL_CLOSE_BRACKET | KEY_CTRL_CARET | ||||||||||||
| KEY_CTRL_UNDERSCORE | KEY_CTRL_BACKSPACE | ||||||||||||
| KEY_ALT_MINUS | KEY_ALT_EQUALS | ||||||||||||
| KEY_BACK_TAB | KEY_SHIFT_TAB |
Above constants with “ORD_” instead of “KEY_”
| ORD_A .. ORD_Z | ORD_0 .. ORD_9 | |
| ORD_LOWER_A .. ORD_LOWER_Z | ||
| ORD_SPACE | ORD_EXCALAMATION_MARK | |
| ORD_QUOTATION_MARK | ORD_HAS_MARK | |
| ORD_DOLLAR_SIGN | ORD_PERCENT_SIGN | |
| ORD_AMPERSAND | ORD_SINGLE_QUOTE | |
| ORD_OPEN_PARENTHESIS | ORD_CLOSE_PARENTHESIS | |
| ORD_ASTERISK | ORD_PLUS | |
| ORD_COMMA | ORD_MINUS | |
| ORD_PERIOD | ORD_DOT | |
| ORD_SLASH | ORD_COLON | |
| ORD_SEMICOLON | ORD_LESS_THAN | |
| ORD_EQUALS | ORD_GREATER_THAN | |
| ORD_QUESTION_MARK | ORD_AT_SIGN | |
| ORD_OPEN_BRACKET | ORD_BACKSLASH | |
| ORD_CLOSE_BRACKET | ORD_CARET | |
| ORD_UNDERSCORE | ORD_APOSTROPHE | |
| ORD_OPEN_BRACE | ORD_BAR | |
| ORD_CLOSE_BRACE | ORD_TILDE |
Characters marked with an asterisk (*) are keys that can only be detected using Input.KeyDown.
All constants in the Keyboard module are exported unqualified. (This means you can use the constants directly without having to use the qualifier "Keyboard.".)