KeyPressed function?

[Karl Ebener]

Hi!

A newbie question: How can I check, whether a key has been pressed and
take that input to perform some action? I don't want to wait for that
input (=> no Enter needed) and the input should not be displayed.

Tnx a lot

Karl

 

[Karl Heinz Buchegger]

Hi!

A newbie question: How can I check, whether a key has been pressed and
take that input to perform some action? I don't want to wait for that
input (=> no Enter needed) and the input should not be displayed.

There is nothing in standard C++ to help you.
Mostly because standard C++ is not aware of a keyboard.
All input or output is generalized to a stream.

But that doesn't mean that it can't be done on your
specific system. All it means is that there is no
general solution. You need system specific functionality
to do that.

 

[Karl Ebener]

Hi!

There is nothing in standard C++ to help you.
Mostly because standard C++ is not aware of a keyboard.
All input or output is generalized to a stream.

But that doesn't mean that it can't be done on your
specific system. All it means is that there is no
general solution. You need system specific functionality
to do that.

Could you give me a hint for Linux systems? I looked but didn't find
anything....

Another question: Is there a way to make a function return a list?
e.g.
int[] abc() { //*returning list*}

Tnx
Karl

 

[chris]

Hi!

There is nothing in standard C++ to help you.
Mostly because standard C++ is not aware of a keyboard.
All input or output is generalized to a stream.

But that doesn't mean that it can't be done on your
specific system. All it means is that there is no
general solution. You need system specific functionality
to do that.

Could you give me a hint for Linux systems? I looked but didn't find
anything....

Another question: Is there a way to make a function return a list?
e.g.
int[] abc() { //*returning list*}

You can return arrays, but doing so requires you to use new[] and
delete[] and deal with the memory management yourself.

A much better idea would be to use "vector" or "list", which are classes
provided by c++ which are much easier to deal with than plain arrays.
Look them up in any good (or even most bad) C++ books

Chris

 

[Karl Heinz Buchegger]

Hi!

Could you give me a hint for Linux systems? I looked but didn't find
anything....

Sorry. I donÄt know about Linux. You should ask in a newsgroup dedicated
to Linux programming.

Another question: Is there a way to make a function return a list?
e.g.
int[] abc() { //*returning list*}

int[] is not a list.
It is the notation for an array with unknown dimensions. But
beware, in this case things are not what they seem to be. The
above is in reality a way to avoid pointer notation, nothing
more. And it cannot be used as return type.

As for a list:

#include <list>

std::list<int> foo()
{
list<int> MyList;

MyList.push_back( 5 );
MyList.push_back( 7 );

return MyList;
}

 

[Arijit]

Hi!


Could you give me a hint for Linux systems? I looked but didn't find
anything....

You can try the GNU readline library.

-Arijit

 

[Default User]

Could you give me a hint for Linux systems? I looked but didn't find
anything....

Most likely something in the curses library. An excellent place to
start is comp.unix.programmer.




Brian

 

[E. Robert Tisdale]

How can I check, whether a key has been pressed
and take that input to perform some action?
I don't want to wait for that input (=> no Enter needed)
and the input should not be displayed.

Take a look at
The Linux Keyboard HOWTO

http://web.inet-tr.org.tr/Online/Linux/HOWTO/Keyboard-HOWTO.html

Read

/usr/include/linux/keyboard.h

Read the man pages for showkey, dumpkeys and loadkeys.