Up/Down Arrow Key prompts

[George]

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Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 11:27 AM
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Subject: Re: Up/Down Arrow Key prompts

 
Confusious (George) say:
>> Are you talking *nix filePro or Windows filePro?
>> In Windows filePro there is definitely a way of showing the up, down and
>> left and right arrow keys.
>> ua="\r "&chr("17")&" \r"; da="\r "&chr("18")&"\r ";
>> la="\r "&chr("23")&chr("14")&"\r ";ra="\r "&chr("14")&chr("24")&"\r ".
>> An alternate to the right-arrow key is ra="\r "&chr("20")&\r " but there
is
>> no equivalent for the left-arrow key, so I rather use the
>> chr("23"),chr("24") and chr("14") combinations.

> 17 was a left arrow, not an up arrow.
> 18 was a dual up/down arrow all at once, not one or the other.
> 24 to my surprise was an up arrow.  I sit corrected about cp437.
> 23 was an up/down arrow all at once with a line under it.

> You did not provide a pure down arrow.  I'm assuming "da" was down arrow.
> It isn't.  Not under WinXP Home.
> mark->

The values I showed have worked for me and all my customers probably since
Windows 95 and certainly since Windows 98.  If your XP Home shows something
different, then you either changed some setting or you have a defective
copy. :-)