From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Fustrated person ranting about text input
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:30:51 +0100, "Edward Griffin"
<edward AT neptune DOT greatxscape DOT net> wrote:

>I'm writting a server program for a network game and I need to write my own
>custom text input function. The program runs in text mode so I don't need
>any graphical stuff. It currently handles IPX packets and sends them to
>other computers on the network. When it's not doing that, I want it to be
>checking for keypresses, and if it gets one, add the letter to a string, and
>display the text on the screen.
>
>It also needs to understand delete, pgup, pgdn, enter and esc seperately.
>How should I go about doing this? There are so many functions like getch,
>kbhit, getche, putchar, getchar etc. I've tried hundreds of combinations and
>I can't get it to work.

#include <conio.h>

while(mainloop)
{
  int kee;

  if(kbhit()) /* we got a key */
  {
    kee = getch();
    if(kee == 0) // we got an extended key
      kee = getch() << 8;
    switch(kee)
    {
    case FOO:
      break;
    case BAR:
      break;
  }
}

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