newbie Q - how to wait for keystroke in gcc/xcode ??

xr600 · Feb 28, 2004

Hi ...

Is there a worthy GCC alternative to the "getche" command in win/dos c++, I've been searching the web for 3 hours now, and can't really find any solution :/.

The thing is, that I wan't my program to wait for a keystroke (like cin, but without pressing "return")... is there some easy way to do that ??.

Newbie thanX.

Torben.

shadov · Feb 29, 2004

SDL can do that. But if there is easier solution I'd like to hear about it too.

xr600 · Feb 29, 2004

shadov said:
SDL can do that. But if there is easier solution I'd like to hear about it too.

Yeah !... In a windows/DOS enviroment you would probably use Conio.h, but that's a no go in xcode/GCC. Someone (on another site) mentioned something about ncurses, but I'll be damned if I know how to use it

.

It really should'nt be that hard... should it ??, and please remember that I'm a complete newbie to C++ (last time I did programming Z80 Assembler code was the hottest

).

Regards.

Torben.

binkley · May 29, 2004

xr600 said:
Yeah !... In a windows/DOS enviroment you would probably use Conio.h, but that's a no go in xcode/GCC. Someone (on another site) mentioned something about ncurses, but I'll be damned if I know how to use it .

I threw together this test program quickly using curses. The only annoying aspect is that it clears the screen when "initscr()" is called.

Code:

#include <curses.h>
int main() {
  int c;

  initscr();

  c = getch();
  printf("\r\nGot character: %c.\r\n", c);

  return 0;
}

Compile with "gcc getch.c -lcurses". Hope that helps.

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