Thread: API Input?

You're asking for something extremely vague. Instead of having people guess what it is that you really want to do, I would suggest you be a little more specific with stating your intentions.

Basicly what i'm looking for is someway to collect input continuesly without programs pausing at a getchar(); or equivilent event. something that i can start making games with that continue to play out even if there is nothing being entered.

Like this?

Code:

int c = 0;

while(c != 27) {  /* or 0x1b: ESCAPE */
    if(kbhit()) {
        c = getch();
        printf("You entered '%c'\n", c);
    }

    printf("Processing . . .\n");
}

(For Dev-C++, try including <conio.h> and using getche() instead.)

Also see http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392

Note that whatever non-buffered keyboard input you use will be non-standard.