note atcroft <p>[doc://perlfaq8|PerlFAQ 8] suggests the following answers to the question, "How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?", depending on the system you are on: <ul> <li>[cpan://Term::Cap] (for both keyboard and screen) <li>[cpan://Curses] <li>[cpan://Term::ANSIColor] </ul> (It also suggests [cpan://Term::ReadKey], [cpan://Term::ReadLine::Gnu], [cpan://Term::ReadLine::Perl], and [cpan://Term::Screen] for working with the keyboard, as well as [cpan://Tk], [cpan://Wx], [cpan://Gtk2], and [cpan://Qt4] bindings for working with mice.) <p>If you are working in a GUI, then you may consider one of the bindings listed above, or perhaps one of the [cpan://Win32|Win32::*] modules (such as [cpan://Win32::Console]). <p>Hope that helps. 994380 994380