is certain key pressed at the moment ??
 

hi, guys !!

i'm new to linux programming, and trying to write the tetris game. i know that's useless, but that's the way i can learn c under linux.
i need the way to find out if key is down or not at the moment. i don't need to wait for user input (like scanf() or getch() in ncurses). i just need to know if the key is pressed at the moment. i hope you will help me find the solution. thanks any way ;)

alex.

See here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=102330
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=34027
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=150615
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=150067

Are you using a GUI API? If so which one? For instance, if you were using SDL, there is a function called SDL_GetKeyState() you could use.

In Windows there is an API called GetAsyncKeyState. There is probably something similar in Xlib, but I don't know it offhand.

If you are just creating your tetris game as a text based game instead of as an X game, then you'll probably just want to check the links that Hko provided.

yep, i'm doing all that in text mode using ncurses. i'm checking the links right now ...

thanks for those links. finally i used new thread which has a infinite loop to read char from the keyboard using ncurses' getch().