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Ideas beyond my skill level

May 8th, 2007

I have many of them

At this point I'm looking for help with a specific idea I know is possible, I just have no idea how to pull it off

first some code:

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cout << "Would you like to continue? (Y/N);
method1();
 
cout << "Would you like to continue? (Y/N);
method1();

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while(someSentinal)
{
   //Do stuff
   method2();
   //Do more stuff
}
while(someSentinal)
{
   //Do stuff
   method2();
   //Do more stuff
}

Now let's define what I want from the methods:

method1 - A simple method that accepts one character, as soon as it is hit, without waiting for a newline (or "return") and lets me send it to a char variable to check with, for instance, an if statement.

method2 - A method that checks for a character and allows it to be returned and acted upon in the Do more stuff section. If nothing is there it does different stuff in the do more stuff. Possibly used in a game situation for a real time combat system to check for user input and then go on to calculate some computer player actions.

I'm not too sure if I explained what I want adequately. It makes perfect sense in my head, and I'm sure these methods exist in standard libraries somewhere, I just don't know where.

Thanks for any time you may waste looking at this

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Re: Ideas beyond my skill level

May 8th, 2007

It sounds like you want the equivalent of getch and kbhit. Search for those two on these forums and you'll find sample code for those functions and alternatives. Keep in mind that what you want to do isn't portable.

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Re: Ideas beyond my skill level

May 8th, 2007

When you say portable I assume you mean compiling with g++ pretty much guarantees non-compiling with, for instance, Visual C++ ?

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Re: Ideas beyond my skill level

May 8th, 2007

>When you say portable I assume you mean compiling with g++ pretty
>much guarantees non-compiling with, for instance, Visual C++ ?
Something like that.

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