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egolovin

Nov 24th, 2008 3:50 pm

Key input

I am looking for a command where i can press m and it pulls up my menu function. i feel retarded cause i tried to look it up but i dont know what i should look for exactly

i know qbasic has a inkey command but i cant figure it out on c++

ArkM	Nov 24th, 2008 4:09 pm

Re: Key input

Qbasic is not a general purpose platform-independent language, it's a concrete implementation of Basic language dialect. No keyboard notion per se in the C++ language. There are lots of keyboard access functions and libraries in C++ implementations.
What's your C++ compiler?

egolovin

Nov 24th, 2008 4:11 pm

Re: Key input

visual c++

WaltP

Nov 24th, 2008 6:28 pm

Re: Key input

Your best bet is to press "M<return>" and use

fgets()

to read the input and process the first character. It's portable and will work on ALL compilers.

ArkM	Nov 24th, 2008 6:33 pm

Re: Key input

Quote:

Originally Posted by egolovin (Post 743764)

visual c++

Have a look at non-standard header <conio.h>. Use getch/getche functions (in console mode applications only - hi, qbasic ;) ). If you are developing GUI application, keyboard key access depends of selected GUI platform...

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