Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 22 May 1996.
TALK: ANSI CODES
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 22 May 1996
On Tue, 21 May 1996, pauline phi phan wrote: > In article <4nco94$2k...@miso.wwa.com> you wrote: > > > Here are the colour and the cursor movement codes. > > If you need the key-redefinition ones as well, just mail me... > > Yes, can you please post or email the key-redefinition ones please. Also, I've included them.. > do you know how to set or create control charaters? Please help if you do If this list doesn't help you, i can't... > know how, I've been asking around and no one was able to help. Thanks! You're welcome! GrntX, Erwin Wessels _______________________________________________________________________________ =============================================================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning !-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-! The following text is a part from a text in my MS-DOS book, so the following sequences are, as far as i know, only valid on MS-DOS, running ANSI.SYS . As for other operating systems, i do not know there effects, so be carefull using these codes! !-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-! Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Warning Parameters that can be uses in ANSI escape-sequences. ===================================================== Pn Numeric parameter. Specifies a decimal number. Ps Selective parameter. Specifies a decimal number, with which you select a function. You can give more function by separating the parameters with a semi-colon. PL Line-parameter. Specifies a decimal number corresponding with one of the lines on the screen or another device. Pc Column-parameter. Is used for a decimal number corresponding with one of the columns on the screen or another device. ANSI escape-sequences for cursormovement and screen display =========================================================== In the next section of ANSI escape sequences the abbreviaton ESC is used for the ASCII escape-character 27 (1Bh) that is used at the beginning of every escape-sequence. ESC[=Psh Select mode. This sequence changes the mode for the screenwidth or the screentype using on of the next values: 0 40 x 25 monochrome (text) 1 40 x 25 color (text) 2 80 x 25 monochrome (text) 3 80 x 25 color (text) 4 320 x 200 four colors (graphic) 5 320 x 200 monochrome (graphic) 6 640 x 200 monochrome (graphic) 7 Breaks off lines at the end 13 320 x 200 color (graphic) 14 640 x 200 color (graphic, 16 colours) 15 640 x 350 monochrome (graphic, b/w) 16 640 x 350 color (graphic, 16 colours) 17 640 x 480 monochrome (graphic, b/w) 18 640 x 480 color (graphic, 16 colours) 19 320 x 200 color (graphic, 256 colours) ESC[=Psl Reset mode. For the resetting of the mode, the same parameters are valid as for the previous sequence, except parameter 7, withwhich the mode is selected that makes sure lines are not broken at the end. ESC[code;charsequence;...p Set keyboardsequences. Assignes a new charactersequence to a key on the keyboard. The following parameters are valid: * code: one or more values from the following table. These values represent the keys en keycombinations of the keyboard. The semi-colons in this table have to be typed. The codes between brackets are not valid for certain keyboards. It CAN be possible that ANSI.SYS processes some of these codes only when you add the switch /x when you start ANSI.SYS. * charsequence: either the ASCII-code for a single character, or a charactersequence between "'s. The capital A can for instance be assigned both using 65 as "A". IMPORTANT: Some values in the following table are NOT valid for all computers. Read the documentation from the computer for values not conforming the following ones. ASCII-keycodes Key Code Shift+ CTRL+ ALT+ F1 0;59 0;84 0;94 0;104 F2 0;60 0;85 0;95 0;105 F3 0;61 0;86 0;96 0;106 F4 0;62 0;87 0;97 0;107 F5 0;63 0;88 0;98 0;108 F6 0;64 0;89 0;99 0;109 F7 0;65 0;90 0;100 0;110 F8 0;66 0;91 0;101 0;111 F9 0;67 0;92 0;102 0;112 F10 0;68 0;93 0;103 0;113 F11 0;133 0;135 0;137 0;139 F12 0;134 0;136 0;138 0;140 keypad: HOME 0;71 55 0;119 ----- ARRROW-UP 0;72 56 (0;141) ----- PGUP 0;73 57 0;132 ----- ARROW-LEFT 0;75 52 0;115 ----- 5 (0;76) 53 (0;143) ----- ARROW-RIGHT 0;77 54 0;116 ----- END 0;79 49 0;117 ----- ARROW-DOWN 0;80 50 0;145 ----- PGDN 0;81 51 0;118 ----- INS 0;82 48 (0;146) ----- DEL 0;83 46 (0;147) ----- ENTER 13 ----- 10 (0;166) / 47 47 (0;142) (0;74) * 42 (0;144) (0;78) ----- - 45 45 (0;149) (0;164) + 43 43 (0;150) (0;55) HOME (224;71) (224;71) (224;119) (224;151) ARROW-UP (224;72) (224;72) (224;141) (224;152) PGUP (224;73) (224;73) (224;132) (224;153) ARROW-LEFT (224;75) (224;75) (224;115) (224;155) ARROW-RIGHT (224;77) (224;77) (224;116) (224;157) END (224;79) (224;79) (224;117) (224;159) ARROW-DOWN (224;80) (224;80) (224;145) (224;154) PGDN (224;81) (224;81) (224;118) (224;161) INS (224;82) (224;82) (224;146) (224;162) DEL (224;83) (224;83) (224;147) (224;163) PRINT-SCREEN ----- ----- 0;114 ----- PAUSE/BREAK ----- ----- 0;0 ----- BACKSPACE 8 8 127 (0) ENTER 13 ----- 10 (0;28) TAB 9 0;15 (0;148) (0;165) NUL 0;3 ----- ----- ----- A 97 65 1 0;30 B 98 66 2 0;48 C 99 67 3 0;46 D 100 68 4 0;32 E 101 69 5 0;18 F 102 70 6 0;33 G 103 71 7 0;34 H 104 72 8 0;35 I 105 73 9 0;23 J 106 74 10 0;36 K 107 75 11 0;37 L 108 76 12 0;38 M 109 77 13 0;50 N 110 78 14 0;49 O 111 79 15 0;24 P 112 80 16 0;25 Q 113 81 17 0;16 R 114 82 18 0;19 S 115 83 19 0;31 T 116 84 20 0;20 U 117 85 21 0;22 V 118 86 22 0;47 W 119 87 23 0;17 X 120 88 24 0;45 Y 121 89 25 0;21 Z 122 90 26 0;44 1 49 33 ----- 0;120 2 50 64 0 0;121 3 51 35 ----- 0;122 4 52 36 ----- 0;123 5 53 37 ----- 0;124 6 54 94 30 0;125 7 55 38 ----- 0;126 8 56 42 ----- 0;127 9 57 40 ----- 0;128 0 48 41 ----- 0;129 - 45 95 31 0;130 = 61 43 ----- 0;131 [ 91 123 27 0;26 ] 93 125 29 0;27 \ 92 124 28 0;43 ; 59 58 ----- 0;39 ' 39 34 ----- 0;40 , 44 60 ----- 0;51 . 46 62 ----- 0;52 / 47 63 ----- 0;53 ` 96 126 ----- (0;41) Examples With the following escape-sequence u can swap the backslash and the question mark, using "literal"-strings: ESC["\";"?"pESC["?";"\"p With the following escape-sequence u can swap the backslash and the question mark, using ASCII-values: ESC[92;63pESC[63;92p With this sequence you can swap them back: ESC[92;92pESC[63;63p
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