Thread: Few things...

You poll for command strings:

Code:

// disclaimer: pseudocode may cause cancer

while ( true ) { // Game loop type deal
  if ( kbhit() ) {
    cmd_str = get_cmd_str();
    process ( cmd_str );
  }
}

kbhit() is often placed in the conio.h header, but since it isn't a standard header it may be somewhere else.

-Prelude

> i dont really understand to mcuh can you elaborate
There is nothing complicated in the code I gave you, perhaps you should start working with something easier than a game.

-Prelude

>can you elaborate on the code and help me understand it more...?
It loops forever, checks to see if a key on the keyboard was hit, then processes input if it was.

-Prelude

i may sound like a broken record, but i'm so lost.


this is what i know:

i know basic cin cout statements, if else staements intergers, chars, floats, do while staements, and a few other little things and i am trying to work wiht what i haveso if i have no idea what you are talking about

This uses what you've learned so far:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>

int main()
{
  do {
    if ( kbhit() ) { // If a key is hit
      int cmd;

      if ( std::cin>> cmd ) // Read an integer
        // If cin succeeds, print it
        std::cout<<"You entered: "<< cmd <<std::endl;
    }
  } while ( true ); // Loop forever, condition always true
}

-Prelude

Ok i implemented the code, and well its not what i am looking for, or i am doing something wrong this is what i have..

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
#include <iomanip.h>


int cmd;


int main()
{

        cout << "hello world..... " ;

        do {
        if ( kbhit() )

        {
        if ( std::cin>> cmd )
        std::cout<< "blah blah blah " << cmd <<std::endl;
        }

        } while ( true );
}