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Version 0.09

Version 0.09 released!

This version adds support for a few more keys; home, end, backspace and F1-F4 and adds a new function, iogetch. I know 7 keys isn't much, but it's the little things that count!
iogetch is the more exciting feature though; it works like a non-blocking version of its standard C namesake, returning the ASCII value of the next pressed key, and 0 if there isn't one. Internally it gives you the ASCII value of whatever key it sees pressed first when you call it.
It's not the most stable of things though; it's an alpha function in a pre-alpha release, so don't expect it to work flawlessly on both Windows and Linux.
To be honest, the Windows functionality is a bit dismal, although on Linux it seems to work fine.

The manual and wiki have also been updated for the new keys and functions of course. Documentation is important!

Next release should have iogetch working more uniformly across platforms and hopefully some more keys working. The modifier keys are proving to be tricky however...

Posted by Daniel Mansfield 2012-04-02

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