Thread: Keyboard Inputs

getchar not gettchar

and i think it is ch = getchar();

while(1)
{
char ch;
/*get key press*/
ch = getchar();
switch(ch)

{
case '1': /*Start Engine*/
ready();
break;
so it should be something like this?

Looks good to me.

In the future, please put all code between [code] [/code] tags

hmm i still get nothing...it compiles but not accessing that while(1)..ive coppied menu from my old project where it works perfectly but not working here.could it be coz of the programme i use?dev c++?

it should be case 1: for numbers. No ''

thanx guys that helped.one more question?is it possible to make it work automaticly..coz at the moment i use scanf...and if i chose option 1 i have to press ENTER all the time.any ideas about that?

No standard function can achieve this I dont think. However there are some in the conio library that can do this I believe.

What you are referring to is called unbuffered input. Do a google search for it and you should get some good results.

As valaris said, there is no standard way to achieve this. The standard io functions typically line buffer console input, which is why you have to hit the ENTER key to signify the end of a line.

great stuff guys!it all works now.gonna look up for unbuffred input now.bad thing is that dev c++ doesnt support many libraries maybe anybody knows any other good simply programms to use?

Good post on it:
http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-2.../msg00442.html

Originally Posted by andreas_himself

dev c++ doesnt support many libraries...

Dev C++ is an IDE... it has nothing to do with supporting libraries. By default I believe it ships with the MinGW compiler, which you can make work with MANY libraries.

hmm i tried to add
#include <ncurses.h> and some other,after compiling it said no such a file or directory.
anyway great help guys

Did you download the ncurses library? It doesn't come included with the MinGW compiler...

If you're on windows I'd suggest getting the pdcurses library, if ncurses is what you're interested in.

Because I believe it's wcurses on windows.

~nm apparently this is an implementation of curses for python.