Thread: Bug in key detection system...both known methods not working

This particular code fragment runs till you press escape (Cred for the arrow-key detection system to Prelude )
It is supposed to show the objects of a class from a file. (Note, the program works like this. There's only one object - obj - and it is changed, then read from/written to file)

Code:

    while(!esc)
    {
        clrscr();
        esc=GetAsyncKeyState(VK_ESCAPE);
        cout<<"\nRecord "<<i+1<<"\n";
        fin.read((char *)&obj, sizeof(obj));
        gotoxy(20,4);
        cout<<"Name : "<<obj.name;
        gotoxy(20,5);
        cout<<"Email : "<<obj.email;
        gotoxy(20,6);
        cout<<"Phone number : "<<obj.phone_num;
        gotoxy(20,7);
        cout<<"Physical Address : "<<obj.address;
        gotoxy(20,8);
        cout<<"Webpage : "<<obj.web;
        gotoxy(20,9);
        cout<<"Yahoo ID : "<<obj.yahoo;
        gotoxy(20,10);
        cout<<"MSN ID : "<<obj.msn;        if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_LEFT)&SHRT_MAX)
        {
            fin.seekg(-7,ios::cur);
            i--;
        }
        if(GetAsyncKeyState(VK_RIGHT)&SHRT_MAX)
        {
            fin.seekg(7,ios::cur);
            i++;
        }
    }

Problem is, it does not wait for the keypress...I cannot work it out this way, either -

Code:

//http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/smartfaq.cgi?answer=1045691686&id=1043284392
//Code by Lucky
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;
bool keyHit(void)
{
     HANDLE stdIn=GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
     DWORD saveMode;
     GetConsoleMode(stdIn, &saveMode);
     SetConsoleMode(stdIn, ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT);
     bool ret=false;
     if(WaitForSingleObject(stdIn, 1)==WAIT_OBJECT_0)
          ret=true;
     SetConsoleMode(stdIn, saveMode);
     return(ret);
}
bool custom_getch(TCHAR &ch)
{
     bool ret=false;
     HANDLE stdIn=GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
     DWORD saveMode;
     GetConsoleMode(stdIn, &saveMode);
     SetConsoleMode(stdIn, ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT);
     if(WaitForSingleObject(stdIn, INFINITE)==WAIT_OBJECT_0)
     {
          DWORD num;
          ReadConsole(stdIn, &ch, 1, &num, NULL);
          if(num==1)
                    ret=true;
     }
     SetConsoleMode(stdIn, saveMode);
     return(ret);
}
TCHAR custom_getch(void)
{
      TCHAR ch=0;
      custom_getch(ch);
      return(ch);
}
int main(void)
{
    char n;
    for(;;)
    {
     cout<<"\nPress a key";
     n=custom_getch();
     cout<<"\n"<<n<<"\nDone";
     getchar();
    }
}

...because that only takes characters.
Using getchar() after the last member of the object is shown doesnt work, either.
Please help asap...
Edit - Just to specify, I need it to wait for a keypress...else I could've easily used Sleep().