Can anyone tell me how to read the state of arrow and shift keys in a 32-bit application compiled with sc.exe? Sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm trying to write a text-mode text editor and have the following problem. When I compile 16-bit dos apps with -mld, I can detect shift and arrow keys with getch() and _bios_keybrd etc but then can't access more than 64k of memory. When I compile normal 32 bit apps I have no memory problems but then can't detect arrow keys etc with getch() and _bios_keybrd is unavailable.

I've tried looking at the X32 extender but it is beyond me. Is there an easier option?

Paul

"Paul" <Paul_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:dfm6vu$2o4v$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Can anyone tell me how to read the state of arrow and shift keys in a
32-bit
> application compiled with sc.exe? Sorry if this is a stupid question but
I'm
> trying to write a text-mode text editor and have the following problem.
When I
> compile 16-bit dos apps with -mld, I can detect shift and arrow keys with getch() and _bios_keybrd etc but then can't access more than 64k of
memory. When
> I compile normal 32 bit apps I have no memory problems but then can't
detect
> arrow keys etc with getch() and _bios_keybrd is unavailable.
>
> I've tried looking at the X32 extender but it is beyond me. Is there an
easier
> option?

The source to MicroEmacs (from www.digitalmars.com) it has code in it to read the keyboard from DOS, DOS32, and Win32.