[DGD]Blocking the Cursor Keys

[Mikael Lind]

Quoting Lord Lerkista from 23:27, November 22, 2000:

> Ok!! i finally compile the DGD!! =)))))))))))

Congratulations.

> now i noticed that with the ansi patch when in a window of telnet
> you use the cursor keys you can go across all the window!! how
> can i block that?? or maybe use the cursors to go north, south,
> etc,etc

I'm no expert but my impression is that there are two different
sending modes for telnet: line by line and char by char. When being
connected to a mud, the text is typically sent line by line. This
means that the mud has no way of knowing what you typed on a line
until you press the enter key and the line is sent to the mud in its
entirety. Cursor movements are not sent, only the text is. This leads
me to believe that your cursor problem is related to your telnet
client rather than the mud server.

Also, for the reason of line by line sending, mapping cursors to
movement instructions should not be implemented by the server. A more
successful approach would be to use a mud client that allows you to
map key presses to commands, for instance TinyFugue:

  http://tf.tcp.com/~hawkeye/tf/

There are probably several other mud clients that can do this as well
but I'm afraid that TinyFugue is the only one that I'm familiar with.

// Mikael (Elemel)

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