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Subject: BBC Micro cursor navigation Date: Sat Mar 08 2025 06:05 pm
From: Digital Man To: Vela025

  Re: BBC Micro cursor navigation
  By: Vela025 to All on Sat Mar 08 2025 10:29 pm

 > Hey All,
 >
 > I'm looking to implement the use of the BBC Micros cursor keys for message
 > navigation (via msglist.js), the beeb sends ASCII 130-133 for
 > Up/Down/Left/Right so I was trying to adapt the following (in msglist.js) to
 > acount for this:
 >
 >             case KEY_DOWN:
 >                 if(msg_ctrl)
 >                     msg_line++;
 >                 else
 >                     current++;
 >                 break;
 >
 > I initially tried just changing KEY_DOWN to 131...but no dice. As these
 > aren't printable characters it is possible to do it in this way?

Deuce and Nelgin are already actively working on mods to SBBS to support BBC Mic
ro MODE7 terminals. Is this the same thing? It sounds like you might be duplicat
ing efforts and should coordinate with Nelgin.
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