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

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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 as examples in other answers in
this section of the perlfaq.



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