Re: FAQ 8.3 How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?

Tintin <tintin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
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> > 8.3: How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
> >
> > How you access/control keyboards, screens, and pointing devices
> ("mice")
> > is system-dependent. Try the following modules:
> >
> > Keyboard
> > Term::Cap Standard perl distribution
> > Term::ReadKey CPAN
> > Term::ReadLine::Gnu CPAN
> > Term::ReadLine::Perl CPAN
> > Term::Screen CPAN
> >
> > Screen
> > Term::Cap Standard perl distribution
> > Curses CPAN
> > Term::ANSIColor CPAN
> >
> > Mouse
> > Tk CPAN
> >
> > Some of these specific cases are shown below.
>
> There's nothing shown below.

"Below" means further down in perlfaq8, in

How do I print something out in color?

How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?

How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?

etc.

Anno
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