NCURSES [curses.h]

[niv]

Okay, I'm facing this simple dilema. What I need is for a loop in C++ to keep going until a keystroke is hit. Now, the problem with using regular cin for that is that it prompts the user for a keystroke. That's not going to work here, as I'm creating a colored version of Tetris in an xterm, and waiting for a keystroke would mean that the user would win no matter what. :p

Anyone who knows how to use ncurses, your help is MUCH appreciated.

Thanks in advance. Any solution is welcome. [BTW, this is a *nix only thing]

[Canuckkev]

Hmm...I'm a very C++ newbie...and I know you know lots...so I doubt !kbhit() is what your looking for, right? Might be only a VS thing...

Anyways...I think you need stdlib.h included, and usage would be like:

while(!kbhit()){
blah blah blah....does all this untill you press a key
}

Doubt it is what you are looking for...oh well. Works good for my bowling game :D

[niv]

Heh, I'll try it out. :)

I'm in an AP class, so we use these bull---- classes that the CollegeBoard creates, which means we never learn anything else. :p

[add]

It doesn't work, as it's not in stdlib.h. :confused2

[add2]
Checked through 2 versions of stdlib, you sure it's in there? :confused:

Also, does it return a bool or a char?

[Canuckkev]

Doh! It's it conio.h . Don't know what it returns...but I assume a bool. Oh, and you need to flush it. A getch() placed somewhere after the loop should do it, so in a larger loop it will go back into the while(!kbhit()) one.

getch() is in conio.h as well.

[niv]

Well, conio.h / nwconio.h is a Windows-header file, so that doesn't help me at all. I'm still trying to get info on how to use curses.h

[nag]

I think this is not a good place to put questions on C++ as this is a freewebspace forum try to put this on C-Programming (http://www.cprogramming.com) or ProgrammersHeaven (http://www.programmersheaven.com) There would surely a lot of replies......