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i am planning a project to control a toy car by using arrow keys of my computer and by wireless communication. pls help me to get a program to detect only arrow keys and ignore other keystrokes.
Sep 29 '08 #1
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The arrow key codes are 37-40. Return true for those and false for anything else.
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