[LBo] c/c++ one keystroke input without waiting for "Enter"

[Loren Lockwood]

Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Loren Lockwood wrote:
>
>> Hi all.  I have been trying to help my son with his computer science 
>> courses. The teachers all use MS software for programming, but I 
>> won't have it on my computer.  His own computer runs XP, with Borland 
>> c++ as a programming platform.
>>
>> With the MS conio routines it is easy to get a key and analyze it, 
>> without the user's hitting "Enter" first.  Does anybody know how to 
>> use ANSI c or c++ to get a single keystroke from the keyboard without 
>> waiting for the user to press "Enter"?  I have examined the iostream 
>> classes but can't find anything which allows this.  I could 
>> instantiate a new istream (or ifstream) object, but I don't know how 
>> to get it to receive input from the keyboard.
>
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Thanks Billy and Chris.  I had been trying to use strictly ANSI c stdio 
(or c++ iostream) to do the job.  I figured that ncurses was cheating, 
sort of like conio under MS OS's.  Now I understand that there is no way 
to do what I wanted.  I'll just stick to ncurses and let my son make the 
translation to conio terms.

Again, many thanks.
-- 
Gramps