From: iam AT not DOT you (Ken Power)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ncurses
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You can use pdcurses with DJGPP (it also compiles under UNIX, windows,
etc) to do this. 

short example (untested):

#include<iostream>
#include<curses.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	cout << "Getting one kestroke"<< endl;
	int c = getch();
	return 0;
}

compile:
gxx myfile.cc -lpdcurses

Take a look at the curses.h file. All your macros/functions are
defined there and fairly understandable. Myself, I found it handy to
download the ncruses package (still haven't got it to compile right
with DJGPP, version 5 of ncurses anyone?) for the man pages and other
documents since pdcurses has strange docs IMHO.

Ken

Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:58:24 GMT, in comp.os.msdos.djgpp,
wroot AT my-deja DOT com managed to squeak:

>Hi,
>
>How can I read one keystroke from the keyboard (including but
>not limited to arrow movements, PgUp, PgDn, Del)? I've heard
>it is done with ncurses/curses. If someone could tell me
>which function, header file and namespace I should use, I would
>appreciate it.
>
>Wroot
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.

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Ken Power
uncle_wiggly at bigfoot dot com
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