Manual Pages  — keyok

 keyok - enable or disable a curses keycode

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#include <curses.h>

int keyok(int keycode, bool enable);

This is an extension to the curses library. It permits an application to disable specific keycodes, rather than use the  keypad function to disable all keycodes. Keys that have been disabled can be re-enabled.

The keycode must be greater than zero, else ERR is returned. If it does not correspond to a defined key, then ERR is returned. If the enable parameter is true, then the key must have been disabled, and vice versa. Otherwise, the function returns OK.

This routine is specific to  ncurses. It was not supported on Version 7, BSD or System V implementations. It is recommended that any code depending on them be conditioned using  NCURSES_VERSION.

Thomas Dickey

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