Recognizing up arrow key in C programs
 

Hello
I am using gcc 4.3.2
i was wondering how i would realize an up/down/left/right arrow key press in realtime during execution of my C program in the terminal.
Also, if it would be possible to realize the key stroke without emptying the input buffer using a /n or something of the sort.
Thanks

You'll need to use termio to set the tty into character mode instead of line mode. Then when you read(fd, &c, 1); you'll get the characters as they're pressed rather than when someone presses return. After that, it's a simple matter of handling the character codes you receive.

Or use the ncurses library.
See this thread for some links: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t-keys-745498/

thanks... the link was really helpful :)