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Title: Read a key from keyboard by user
Post by: daniellam on November 09, 2008, 06:43:04 AM

Hi,
how to check if the user press the "Page Down" or "Page Up" botton on keyboard by "int 16h"??

Thx!!

Title: Re: Read a key from keyboard by user
Post by: Mark Jones on November 09, 2008, 03:48:56 PM

Hi, perhaps this will help:

http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm

Title: Re: Read a key from keyboard by user
Post by: Neil on November 09, 2008, 04:12:09 PM

Here is a code example ;-

KB:
SUB AH,AH ;Function wait for
INT 016 ;& get keypress
CMP AL,0 ;Is it extended code?
JNZ KB ;No, ignore & return to keypress
CMP AH,73 ;'Page up'?
JZ ;Yes, do something
CMP AH,81 ;'Page down'?
JZ ;Yes, Do something else

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