Help with getch...

darkarcon2015 · 09-10-2004, 04:57 PM

Helllo, I was wondering how I can get my program to do something around these lines: I want it so that when a certain key is pressed, something happens. Like "Press Enter to Start." Can someone show me a line or a snipet of code that could help me? Thanks.

jlliagre · 09-10-2004, 08:52 PM

You'll find a 13 years old implementation of getch that should still work for current linux at http://ndirty.cute.fi/~karttu/shoginew/getch.c

darkarcon2015 · 09-11-2004, 01:37 PM

Will this work in Windows? Because I don't think I have the "sgtty.h" header file.

jlliagre · 09-12-2004, 05:37 AM

You didn't specify you wanted a Windows answer ...
In that case, I think getch is a standard (dos) call, so sth like:

printf("Press Return to continue");
while(getch()!='\n') ;

should work.

N43 · 09-12-2004, 08:48 AM

You need the conio.h header file to use getch() under Windows. Possibly getch!='\n' won't work bacause it doesn't represent the return key. If it doesn't work try out getch!=char(13)