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ascii character code reference?

Post by Agent_Firestalker »

I've studied other's programs to get the codes for left, right, up and down, but how do you find out the code for keys like F1-12, shift, alt, etc?0
Is there a good site online to find a chart?

thanx
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It depends but if you have QuickBasic you have all then information right there. Just go to the help file and lookup keyboard scan codes. and you should be in business :-)
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Post by Rattrapmax6 »

I did a chart of most of them here:
http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tut ... amming.txt

Alt, Ctrl, and 1 or two more I didn't list... but F1-F12 is there for sure.. :wink: .. and loads of other 1s..
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Key-Codes (Not scan-codes)

Post by UWLabs »

If you need a simplified list here's the most commonly used codes:

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KeyHome$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(71)
KeyEnd$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(79)
KeyDel$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(83)
KeyUp$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(72)
KeyDown$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(80)
KeyLeft$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(75)
KeyRight$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(77)
KeyInsert$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(82)
KeyTab$ = CHR$(9)
KeyBacKeyspace$ = CHR$(8)
KeyEnter$ = CHR$(13)
KeyF1$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(59)
KeyF2$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(60)
KeyF3$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(61)
KeyF4$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(62)
KeyF5$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(63)
KeyF6$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(64)
KeyF7$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(65)
KeyF8$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(66)
KeyF9$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(67)
KeyF10$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(68)
KeyF11$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(133)
KeyF12$ = CHR$(0) + CHR$(134)
Or, you can download this simple utility program and try to log them yourself...

ftp://members.aol.com/uwlabs/ascii.bas

Hope it helps.
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Post by Antoni »

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do
 sleep
 a$=inkey$
 print
 for i=1 to len(a$)
  print asc(mid$(a$,i,1));" ";
 next
loop until asc(a$)=27
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