pressing keys

im considering making a cheezy game in c++ and was wondering how i would go about adding key press events to my code

Mean something like getch() (look up your help files)?

Hey!!! Two things:
> God does not play dice.
> -Stephan Hawking

First, it's Stephen.
Second, it's Einstein who said that - Hawking thinks that God is a gambler.

Why don´t you try to catch the signals from your keyboard?
Depending on the platform you're intending to code, you could use the bios functions and of course, some assembly code...