I have searched for this everywhere. The FAQ answer, as far as I can tell, just replicates cin.get().
All I want is this: On a key press, ANY key press [NOT just enter], I want a specific function to be executed. Although it is fine if it only detects numbers, letters, and symbols, or even only letters.
maybe
if cin.get()=='a'?
You ended that sentence with a preposition...Bastard!
Ok, that sort of works - I have to press a then enter, and it executes the function twice. All I need now is to remove the need for an enter press.
there is no standards-compliant way to do that. different hardware has different functionality, and there's no way to guarantee that such functionality exists on all hardware, so the standard library works with lines of text, terminated by '\n' or "\r\n" characters, instead of raw key presses. there are ways to do it on every platform. on unix/linux, you can try the ncurses library, and on windows there are built-in api functions for it.
Ok, I use windows, so I'm interested in these api functions.
I've foung the System.Windows.Form class and its method OnKeyPress(). Just a question before I try it out - How do I use things from the Windows API? What header file do I use? do I use something other than namespace std?
Last edited by mortalc; 03-15-2011 at 07:58 AM.
the System.Windows.Form class will do you very little good in C++, unless you're using the .Net variant C++/CLI.
try this link
