Thread: Interrupt Question

State your OS and Compiler.

See the FAQ entry on reading key presses without waiting for a newline.
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392

How do I set up an interrupt to do this?

In XP, you don't

In DOS, you hook the keyboard interrupt, but this would work just fine.

Code:

while (!kbhit())
{
  ..run your loop
}

I don't know if it works in console b/c frankly I've never coded console programs. I went from DOS to DX to MFC.

kbhit() works in my somewhat old version of Dev-C++; it's in <conio.h>.

[edit] If you want the loop to end only if a certain key is pressed (and not just any key), you might try something like this:

Code:

while(!kbhit() || getche() != ' ') {

}

[/edit]

you could look into signals maybe in linux. They might be useful.