assigning arrow key in bindkey

Hi

<Key>Left

<Key>Right  .....  Up  Down

regards

lrlsk

There is a great Unix utility called "xev" that is an X event viewer. In a terminal window run "xev" and you will see a little window pop up called "Event Tester". Move your mouse over the window and a ton of messages start scrolling by. The tool reports the events taking place over the window, so it will record every mouse movement. Take your hand off the mouse and press a key on the keyboard and you'll see some information like this:

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x5900001,
    root 0x1e6, subw 0x0, time 1199879666, (117,130), root:(991,688),
    state 0x0, keycode 102 (keysym 0xff53, Right), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0x5900001,
    root 0x1e6, subw 0x0, time 1199879786, (117,130), root:(991,688),
    state 0x0, keycode 102 (keysym 0xff53, Right), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Notice there are two events, KeyPress and KeyRelease. In the third line next to the keysym code is the name of the key just pressed. I pressed the right arrow. Now try pressing the right arrow on the number keypad and you should see a name like: KP_Right

Sometimes these names are different for other operating systems or keyboards, so it is a great debug tool as well as a key-identifyer tool.

Derek

And in IC615 it's even easier because in the new bindkey editor you can just press the key (or key combination) and it will fill in the key coding for you automatically.

Andrew.