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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by pengaru on Monday May 17, 2021 @12:44PM (#27185460)
I suspect the author may have some experience implementing ad-hoc buttons via GPIO polling from userspace, and maybe used getch() in doing so.
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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by klodolph on Monday May 17, 2021 @12:58PM (#27185598)
The thing about getch() is that there's not really one standard getch(). There's a Windows version of getch() which is compatible with, notably, Borland's version for DOS (I think), and then various people have reimplemented getch() for other systems.
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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by pengaru on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:05PM (#27185669)
They might have meant to write getc() or getchar()...
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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by klodolph on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:09PM (#27185708)
That would make no sense at all. I think the comparison to getch() is the natural one here.
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Re:Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux? by pengaru on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:29PM (#27185903)
I suppose, from the linux perspective going through curses for this use case, in the same sentence mentioning "debouncing" seems awkward, but it does at least provide a polling api. Honestly I have no idea what they're talking about there.
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