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- {
- SEAN PALMER
-
- >I want to be able to transparently read a keypress. In
- >other Words, I'd like to know what key is being pressed,
- >but allow the keypress to return to the keyboard buffer or
- >to be read by the Program that's reading it. I'd like this
- >to Function as a TSR, and I need some way to Record the
- >keypresses. This is a very complicated problem which I
- >have consulted many advanced Programmers With. Please help
- >if you are able. Thanks in advance!
-
- It returns the Character part of the Char/scan code combo in the current
- head of the keyboard buffer queue in the bios data area.
- The scan code would be at the location $40:head+1.
-
- It would probably be more efficient if you used $0:$41A instead of
- $40:$1A, but that might cause problems With protected mode.
- }
-
- Var
- head : Word Absolute $40 : $1A;
- tail : Word Absolute $40 : $1C;
-
- Function peekKey : Char;
- begin
- if head = tail then
- peekKey := #0
- else
- peekKey := Char(mem[$40 : head]);
- end;
-